Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I wis jist mebbe wonderin' if ye could pit in a word fir me ? ’ |
| 2 | A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual . |
| 3 | If that 's a bit out of your reach at £15,000 , maybe you could settle for a model of the real thing . |
| 4 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | If you had it numbered , you could refer to a number . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If it was n't you could walk through a hail of machine-gun fire and come out the other end without even a scratch . ’ |
| 12 | And you could walk fifty yards down the road and there 'd be somebody else building and you could walk on a say is that the job how much ? |
| 13 | You could walk into a canal . |
| 14 | You could pass for a musickie model . ’ |
| 15 | When I was 10 , smoking was the worst social crime you could commit as a boy , and that , I suppose , was part of its charm . |
| 16 | Er and you could go to a boarding school but if you did n't you were moved round every three or four years at the most to a different school . |
| 17 | Alright , is that significantly different from zero or you could go to a pie squared tables , look at the degrees of freedom , which is one , right . |
| 18 | But you could go to a campsite for far less ! ’ |
| 19 | And then you could go for a swim over , go and do his suit and you could have a swim at Guildford . |
| 20 | Any software that uses a page description language called PostScript will talk to Linotype photosetters , TeX talks to just about anything ever made or you could go for a specialist product such as Itek 's PTW which links to their Digitek photosetter . |
| 21 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 22 | Perhaps you could go for a walk each day ( with or without a dog ) ; you could go swimming or ride a bicycle — it does n't really matter what you do as long as you do it regularly . |
| 23 | The best place to go like to go for a wee dance , the only place you could go for a wee da , that 's the . |
| 24 | Well you could go as a mechanic like , you can go as different things , whatever |
| 25 | Well they 're , I mean at least you knew if you did n't like the school you could go into a factory but I mean O levels for doing the jobs we are , I , I think it 's , we had a good laugh about that . |
| 26 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 27 | Mrs Rena Jamieson , however , will still be attending and I would be pleased if you could arrange for a replacement invoice , which I believe will total £85.00 , to be sent to the above address , for the attention of Miss H White . |
| 28 | Do you think you could benefit from a phone in the car ? |
| 29 | In addition you could benefit from a messaging system which turns your mobile phone into an answerphone when not in use . |
| 30 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |