Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sister was okay , you could sit and talk to her . |
| 2 | you could sit and play with your teddies for ages and you never complained . ’ |
| 3 | Do you remember being dressed in everything that you could wear and protesting at the heat ? |
| 4 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 5 | I do wish we had some nice relations you could go and stay with . |
| 6 | Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle . |
| 7 | and you could go and look at the local one and talk to the people there and see what they 're doing and |
| 8 | And we 're seeing a situation in which computers are now moving out of the sort of Delphic Oracle there where they were behind glass doors and you could go and look at them and there were huge whirring wheels and whatnot . |
| 9 | They were alright , big glass things which you could surround and pack in tea chests with bits and pieces and equipment in . |
| 10 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 11 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 12 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 13 | You could come and go in the world . |
| 14 | Aggie thought for a few seconds , ‘ You could come and stay with me . ’ |
| 15 | But the chair had been very expensive , with a foot-rest and a back that you could raise and lower by using a lever on the arm . |