Example sentences of "[adv] you could be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you know i I mean actually the other , the other aspect of it Anne if you , if you pull this out you could be talking about hosting small conferences and that |
| 2 | If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk . |
| 3 | Obviously this idea has to be thought out in advance , and if your friend or family move during the winter then you could be faced with a big problem in trying to gather enough material to make an attractive and interesting picture . |
| 4 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 5 | He was just non compos mentis most of the time and there were times when you could be forgiven for forgetting that he was a woefully sick man . |
| 6 | One who claimed to revere life yet who wrote , at a time when you could be hanged for stealing a lamb , those dreadful , gloating sonnets on ( ‘ Fit retribution by the moral code ! ’ ) the punishment of death ? |
| 7 | Well , actually you could be forgiven for thinking that , and actually you 'd be wrong . |