Example sentences of "or you could [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 2 | Or you could ask a question like , What was the father ? |
| 3 | Or you could get a life instead . |
| 4 | As a policyholder , you would receive cash for a wide range of permanent disabilities or you could receive a proportion of these payments for permanent partial disabilities . |
| 5 | Or you could take a bit of a short cut say well we 've already got twelve there thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen and so on . |
| 6 | There are several restaurants and snack bars in the park to choose from , or you could take a picnic and relax in the beautiful gardens . |
| 7 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |
| 8 | Or you could use a recording as an example of the performance of a task you set the students — the preparation of a report for example . |
| 9 | Or you could use a text which has been translated from one medium into another . |
| 10 | You could either buy a lot of 10V , 5 per cent Zeners and sort out one with the right voltage ( up to 10.5V is possible at 5 per cent tolerance ) , or you could use a 9.1V Zener in series with two high-current silicon rectifiers , which will drop about 0.5V each . |
| 11 | Er if you were er some people had a gas ring , you know , not a cooker , a gas ring those sort of ring that you can boil a kettle on , or you could have a saucepan . |
| 12 | For example , you might have a regiment of halberdiers and a detachment of hand gunners , or you could have a regiment of hand gunners with a detachment of swordsmen plus a detachment of spearmen . |
| 13 | I mean you could go out , and you could put a little bit of money in the building society , or the bank , or you could have a gamble on the Stock Exchange , but we have two advantages . |