Example sentences of "you could [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could also paint the tip of the cane silver , if liked . |
| 2 | If you do n't want to use your machine at all just now , you could also make the tubing by using one of those marvellous little gadgets for French knitting without tears , or even the classic four nails in the top of a cotton reel — slow , but wonderful to keep small children occupied for hours and very soothing for you too . |
| 3 | You could also calculate the increase in the numbers each week . |
| 4 | If you want to you could also cut the bottom of the bookmark into a fringe . |
| 5 | You could also use the abbreviation ‘ wpg ’ for the instances when the word ‘ word-processing ’ is required . |
| 6 | You could also use the medicine ball in a one-armed shot put action , using first one side and then the other . |
| 7 | The lace skirt with a plain top looks very new , but you could also use the lace for a summer top . |
| 8 | You could also contact the Society of Electronic and Radio Technicians , 57–61 Newington Causeway , London SE1 6BL , tel. ( 071 ) 403 2351 . |
| 9 | Just because you want a pale , peach-coloured border for a room does n't mean that you are restricted to using similar-coloured flowers when planning the design : you could even create the design using brown leaves and blue flowers , providing their shapes are satisfactory . |
| 10 | You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies … torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham . |
| 11 | The last time Oxford played fellow strugglers Bristol City you could barely see the pitch . |
| 12 | so , sh oh she said you , oh first of all she said you can go and get the key , so I said oh no I 'm not bothered about the key I said if you could just leave the side gate open , so erm |
| 13 | Do you think you could just open the door for me please ! |
| 14 | Well after a while the bricks got hot enough that you could just adjust the valve to where the stove would get almost cherry red and it was a very nice fire . |
| 15 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 16 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 17 | A piece of thick , stiff cardboard about 40 cm × 15 cm for each tank — you could instead modify the design , using pieces of hardboard or preferably thin plywood , in which case you could make slightly larger aquaria ; a roll of transparent plastic sandwich bags ; one large , wide rubber band for each tank ; Bostik or other glue suitable for gluing the cardboard — if you are using plywood or hardboard , use a wood glue and small panel pins to fix the sections together ; a supply of jars or plastic containers with screw-on or snap-on lids . |
| 18 | For example , in a narrow town or terrace house where the front door opens directly into a corridor-like space , you could either take the wall down altogether , or make an arch going into the living room , or take the wall down to seating level , literally making a seating ledge . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does ! |
| 21 | You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it . |
| 22 | I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was |
| 23 | The houses were linked together with heavy fretwork windows so that you could not see the sky . |
| 24 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 25 | You could not hear the voice of reason , only the terrible curiosity , insisting that it be satisfied . |
| 26 | You could organise a large event at your local park or a sponsored ramble in the country ; or you could simply leave the car at home and get people to sponsor your walk to the station . |
| 27 | Sterling … in those days you could n't float the pound . |
| 28 | Yes , there was n't a job for you if you could n't carry the barley . |
| 29 | ‘ In a way it would be interesting to work in a country where you could n't speak the language so you could communicate with your eye and your camera , not your tongue . |
| 30 | Er the other thing you 've got to have and very essentially , is coordination , got to cross those stepping stones if you could n't coordinate the action right , now this is vitally important this coordination , it 's the skilful interaction of the five senses , the brain , the nerves and the muscles , acting with the right degree of effort and timing . |