Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 2 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 3 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 4 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 5 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 6 | Management ought to look at the work that you do and that you could be asked to do under any contractual ‘ flexibility ’ provisions before finally deciding upon the groups of people from which redundancy candidates will be sought . |
| 7 | In fact they are out to prove that their problem is insoluble and that you could n't help them . |
| 8 | Write down some things you do that may get in the way of a good relationship and that you could improve . |
| 9 | er they , you know , were people that you trust and that you could ask questions that you would n't be embarrassed |
| 10 | ‘ You wished that the picture could become old , and that you could stay young . |
| 11 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 12 | You know his father had started the company and the men , the older men in the quarry had been there from day one with him , you know from when they were producing next to nothing to being quite a profitable concern , and he realized the value of these men , and that you could n't just say , oh because they disagree with you just well , down the road pal . |
| 13 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 14 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 15 | We like to think that the arrangement of books has been brought to a fine art , so it was good to hear the verdict of Evening News reporter Bob Watt that there was ‘ bookshop tranquillity ’ and that you could ‘ feel the order . ’ |
| 16 | It was a cake you never got in England , because there the milk did not have to be boiled and so you could never collect a bowlful of creamy skin from successive goes . |
| 17 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 18 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |
| 19 | And so you could plough that straight back in |
| 20 | There are two rooms at the front and two at the back on each floor , and although you could not tell from the outside , the first floor rooms are a foot higher than those below . |
| 21 | Technically you are both liable for the overdraft and if you could find this man you could sue him . |
| 22 | And if you could stop them laughing so … so raucously all night and … and' ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And if you could meet Swire Sugden yourself he might listen to you being an honourable an' all that , ’ said Otley to my amazement , I never knew he was a royalist . |
| 24 | And if you could go back , would you stay in Beirut just because you had a nice home there ? ’ |
| 25 | Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy . |
| 26 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 27 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 28 | Right , we 'll do the register now please and if you could just erm tell me the |
| 29 | They called it ‘ lying in ’ — and if you could n't actually ‘ lie ’ all the time , people around you made quite sure you took it very easy indeed . |
| 30 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |