Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 2 | Nine months and five days , you could 've had a baby by now . |
| 3 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 4 | Erm you asked about the cottage and the amounts , yeah there was you could have asked a bit more perhaps about the tax there but otherwise you 're very good . |
| 5 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 6 | As Merrill looked at him questioningly , he went on , ‘ Knowing , by then , just how you felt about the circumstances of Elise 's death , you could have done a lot of damage . ’ |
| 7 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 8 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 9 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 10 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 11 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 12 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 13 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 14 | On one occasion the door to his bedroom was left open and if you had passed along the corridor you could have caught a glimpse of the Collector , slumped on his bed , haggard and ginger-whiskered , the very picture of despair . |
| 15 | You could have got a T V or listened to the radio . |
| 16 | Surely , however busy you were , you could have got a message through ? |
| 17 | West Ham boss Billy Bonds said : ‘ You could have driven a coach through our defence tonight . ’ |
| 18 | He said for the money we spent here you could have had a percentage off . |
| 19 | You could have had a gap of many years since you worked . |
| 20 | You could have had a paddle like this |
| 21 | Why , you could have had a career in modelling or something … ’ |
| 22 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 23 | Normally , you could have filmed a sequence where he was running , then stopped to speak , in one go , but it involved six or seven ‘ cuts ’ . |
| 24 | So you could have paid a company five hundred , six hundred pounds , and have no surrender value whatsoever , in the first two years , cos they 'll take their charges out on a twenty year , a twenty five year contract . |