Example sentences of "you could [adv] buy " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the three unbreakable makes of 1930 were distributed by record shops in the usual way , you ordered your Durium records from your newsagent , so a pair of new hits were delivered through your letterbox once a week , like magazines ( you could also buy them over the counter , of course ) . |
| 2 | You could also buy a carpet treated with Scotchgard . |
| 3 | You could even buy postcards of it . |
| 4 | You could even buy one of the sub-£200 XTs that are on the market at the moment — but do n't make the mistake of thinking that they can be pushed into many other applications areas . |
| 5 | Women who preferred who preferred traditional methods of sanitary protection either had to stand in long queues in order to buy just one or two towels you could n't even buy a packet , you could just buy one or two or make do with other methods . |
| 6 | You could either buy a lot of 10V , 5 per cent Zeners and sort out one with the right voltage ( up to 10.5V is possible at 5 per cent tolerance ) , or you could use a 9.1V Zener in series with two high-current silicon rectifiers , which will drop about 0.5V each . |
| 7 | ‘ It was like a collective , you could either buy the porn through the mail , or you could send in a tape of yourself and get plugged into the apparatus that way , ’ explains David James , a film professor at the University of Southern California , who has researched the phenomenon . |
| 8 | ‘ You could n't buy what I learned from Joe , ’ Cohen said , ‘ and it makes you wonder about the people who are teaching them now . |
| 9 | And you could n't buy the buttons |
| 10 | By 1970 you could n't buy a derelict cottage in the Nunes neighbourhood for less than , 4,000 and Wyvis Hall would fetch five times that . |
| 11 | You could n't buy all this working at Lyons bakery or the Black Cat factory . |
| 12 | At one time he , he lived at , they lived at but er er she was a widow and she was ninety but she was very good to us and , but we had er , we had apartments but there was a lock on both sides of the door , you know what I mean , we were quite self-contained and we had er er a narrow stairs and because of the war I could n't , you could n't er , I used to scrub the stairs down because you could n't buy carpet in those days , you see because of the war and to the shortage of stuff and so I used to keep those stairs nice and , we had a , a , we went , as we went up these stairs erm it , I suppose originally , you see , it would have been back stairs for the servants , you see , in the hall and this old lady used to go in and if ever she had the doctor she used to ask me if I would go and sit with her and hold her hand while the doctor came , you see . |
| 13 | Yes , but you could n't buy all new ? |
| 14 | A plaintive Beatles love song poured all over them proclaiming that you could n't buy love . |
| 15 | No but those you could n't buy like that . |
| 16 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 17 | right , you 've made yourself a , your , twenty thousand anyway , then you could probably buy a , a nice little two bedroom bungalow |
| 18 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 19 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 20 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |
| 21 | You could actually buy a second hand mini car for that , but the seats would n't be nearly as luxurious as this . |
| 22 | You could actually buy a second hand mini car for that , but the seats would n't be nearly as luxurious as this . |
| 23 | You could actually buy erm Trevor . |
| 24 | And we go way back — way , way back , back to the time when you could still buy mono records , when kiwi fruit were yet to be devised , when the khaki-clad representative of the Automobile Association would salute the passing motorist , when a packet of Gold Flake cost a groat and a half and you still had change for a flagon of mead . |
| 25 | Not just bars and restaurants — and there were plenty of those — but most of the shops were still open : you could still buy a winter outfit birthday card book or a pressure cooker and lots of people were doing so . |
| 26 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 27 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |