Example sentences of "you could [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	’ I wis jist mebbe wonderin' if ye could pit in a word fir me ? ’
2	The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front .
3	A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual .
4	If that 's a bit out of your reach at £15,000 , maybe you could settle for a model of the real thing .
5	And you could sit in the back .
6	But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer .
7	Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint ,
8	Yeah , you could fish in the river then .
9	You could hide under the counter . ’
10	‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall .
11	Oh , says I , aye , I says , you could stay in the village .
12	Of course you could stay in an hotel !
13	He would pretend — for he always had his excuses well marshalled in preparation for any surprise attack of questioning — that he had been disinclined to stop because of the stone 's unnaturalness resulting from Mr Pocklington 's enthusiastic enterprise in housing an old woman there whose hand — for a fee — you could shake under the stone .
14	This fabulous resort , a mere twenty minutes from the recently-opened Holdana International Airport , offers you everything you could want from a holiday — and more !
15	You could eat off the floor in her house .
16	‘ For people like my father the City was a lovely environment where you could meet for a drink , or have lunch and be with friends .
17	‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century .
18	If you had it numbered , you could refer to a number .
19	To help with this you could refer to the section on listening ( p. 113 ) and look at some of the guidelines there .
20	That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed .
21	When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug .
22	The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead .
23	There are , of course , many alarm systems that you could fit to a home and prices range enormously. , It is best to take advice from a good security expert .
24	Which you could fit in an helicopter .
25	A handsome yet sylvan prospect where you could promenade to the music of brass bands .
26	You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes .
27	Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings .
28	He took a deep breath , " I was thinking , " he said slowly , conscious of her arms still round his waist ( no ; one hand went to her brow , smoothed her hair away from her eyes ; there , though , it went back again , clasped lightly behind him ! ) , " about … whether you could tell from the wine on the inside of a shoe what type it was .
29	Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery .
30	Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual .

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