Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 've put your marks every two squares , but you do n't need to write all the numbers in you could just write say erm two , four , six , eight or you could just write five , ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five . |
| 2 | ones the or others , if you 're getting stuck on them , do n't miss something like this that you could do and get full marks . |
| 3 | In houses for heating it 's conceivable that you could have a huge hot water store in the basement , or a store made up of round pebbles , heated by hot air , which you could then use by circulating cool air through them to produce hot air at other times . |
| 4 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 5 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 6 | My middle daughter was like that , tall and slim and you could hardly tell . |
| 7 | It 'd all be different if you could get a job . |
| 8 | Whilst realising some of the questions do not apply to you as a potential member , it would be interesting if you could please complete , insofar as practical , the enclosed questionnaire and return it to me at |
| 9 | to the right sort of people , you enjoy driving it 's a shame you do n't drive because then that way you will have your Saturdays free because you could get your shopping done and , and be done . |
| 10 | But at least it would give us some because you could say well yes , there has been progress , erm primary school might have said |
| 11 | Or if the ground was kind of wet we used to er make slide then and skate along on it and if the ground got dry we would get a old bucket or something and run round to the tap at the tank at the back of the school and get a a lot of water wet till you could slip on it . |
| 12 | June milk was the best and strongest because you could leave it to turn blue for Christmas . |
| 13 | That aside , the rest of the main editing screen is as clear as you could wish . |
| 14 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 15 | But one has to bear in mind that it is always possible that you could have other materials for riding and so on . |
| 16 | In modern timber-frame houses , it is possible that you could be fixing into the timber frame itself and/or plasterboard above the window reveal . |
| 17 | It is i i I I we have a wide range of changes that would flow out from that so you could n't just take a change to Cornwall which would then create an oversized Devon seat , I quite accept that and we 've argued from the first that this would have to be part of the review as a whole . |
| 18 | And we can have a look at some consequences of that so you could have short term , long term consequences . |
| 19 | You could die or go bankrupt and the house would stay basically unchanged , still mouldering slowly and running up a ransom of a heating bill … unless you were so fabulously rich that you could afford not to give a shit , in which case all arguments foundered . |
| 20 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's so urgent and private that you could n't discuss it over the telephone ? ’ |
| 22 | Aye , but you must remember that money was so scarce in the thirties that you could n't miss anything . |
| 23 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 24 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 25 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |
| 26 | And all the little blobs that had looked like cotton wool became , as he touched them , bunches of cherry blossom , tinged with pink , so real that you could almost smell them , almost imagine yourself out of this noisy workshop and waling between trees at dawn . |
| 27 | There were still — at the end of the enlightened eighteenth century , that Age of Reason which matched itself against Athens — old women in Lamplugh who were convinced that you could be led to your death by a will-o'-the-wisp or terrified out of life by the fairies . |
| 28 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 29 | Whereas the , the heaters that were installed went on thermostatically controlled and er when you went in the morning , the place was nice and warm and you could apply yourself to work right away . |
| 30 | Here ago you see it implied that you were so much more learned and knowledgeable and clever if you could talk English . |