Example sentences of "[verb] and you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I says I would n't phone in , I 'd let you know and you could do it and I 'll pay you myself , I do n't mind , you know , losing a day 's pay . |
| 2 | And then you could go for a swim over , go and do his suit and you could have a swim at Guildford . |
| 3 | I says that 's got ta be Warren , it could n't be anybody else , so when I come down I went off like , well I tell ya I ca n't do it , so I knew it was so I picked up the wrong she says oh I 'm just ringing because you can see what the weather is she says and you could n't go and do a day in erm , with your |
| 4 | You could n't fool him , we used to play hide and seek and you could n't fool him . |
| 5 | The heat surge grill thing in the car had broken and you could n't just buy a n individual switch you er had to buy the whole thing and it was |
| 6 | Oh it was after the First World War because everything was rationed and you could n't buy onions but er I 'd say it was about seventy years ago |
| 7 | There was a time when your hairdryer or moisturiser would mysteriously disappear and you could be pretty certain of catching your man red handed — pinching your beauty products ! |
| 8 | Yeah yeah erm you could write just outside it here like save and you could say that you save forty pence . |
| 9 | Overswing and you could snag ( entangle with the string of your opponent 's conker ) — three snags and you 're disqualified . |
| 10 | Usually , you went there , a couple of doors were closed and you could smell the smoke , guys sneaking breaks . |
| 11 | Do this in a clockwise direction , not anticlockwise or they will unscrew and you could have a length of drain rod stuck down the drain — as well as the original blockage ! |
| 12 | the knee bent and you could n't straighten it . |
| 13 | I wanted to keep the back door locked and you could n't do that from inside . |
| 14 | The winds , temperatures and humidity can change and you could be in your best shape , but the wind is against you . |
| 15 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 16 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 17 | Too tight and the skis wo n't detach from the boot if you fall and you could really hurt yourself , too loose and they 'll fall off . |
| 18 | She was screaming and you could hear her crying . |
| 19 | We can , we can put it all under one roof , and the d the design came out er good erm so that you could walk from the end of the , the machine shop was extended and you could walk from there into the catapult shop directly , or straight into the er fitting base , and thence down onto the welding sections . |
| 20 | The sign was peeling and you could n't read it from the other side of the square but the Three Towns knew who Whalbys ' were without that . |
| 21 | Even through the double glazing the glass was beginning to melt and you could hear this horrible panting sound . |
| 22 | If you do n't declare excess goods and you are caught , you 'll have to pay duty and tax on the lot , the goods will probably be confiscated and you could be prosecuted too . |