Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 2 | oh oh dear I should think you could send every female relative possible a mother 's day card |
| 3 | I should think you could use some money just now . |
| 4 | I should think you could find her there . ’ |
| 5 | I should think you could have a tissue . |
| 6 | But I can see how you might think you could gain an advantage — me having problems with the local police while you work out a way to come up smelling sweet . |
| 7 | Once things are more advanced , I might hope you could include a leaflet in a future mailing . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll bet you could find some clues the coppers have missed . ’ |
| 9 | She says no you ca n't , I might do and then when she 's ready to go out she 'll say you could 've taped it . |
| 10 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |
| 11 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 12 | S you could do you could do a hexagon this way actually draw a hexagon . |
| 13 | As a chemist , is there anything that you would really like to know , something you 'd really like to discover , something that if you knew you could feel you could do a whole lot more chemistry ? |
| 14 | But the thing is once you 'd fit you could stay there . |
| 15 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 16 | You could have you could have made it work . |
| 17 | Well I mean you could have you could have one in here . |
| 18 | You know you could hear you could hear them shouting you know goodnight and things like that . |
| 19 | You could put you could put courgettes in . |
| 20 | Even got myself a nice little vacation landward of Seattlefish on Earth — hills , rivers , air you could breathe , that sort of stuff , and the sky so clear you 'd figure you could see forever . |
| 21 | I 'd say you could make your way up there , no trouble . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd say you could do with a touch more garlic in that , by the way — Pauline always used to go quite heavy on the garlic . |
| 23 | I 'd say you could put a lot of the abuse down to drink , though anyone with a black face was in trouble in Golcar that Saturday night . ’ |
| 24 | I would say you could defend the British position because what it seems to me to be based on is first of all the idea that the institution itself should make the decision , and that surely is a democratic start , that you do n't lay down a rule from Newcastle to John O'Groats , or wherever , and that the people in the institution have a certain chemistry together . |
| 25 | I think let's say you could learn Which ones could n't you learn then do you think ? |
| 26 | And you can use you could use past that erm cos that 's the other thing I have n't shown you , is , is this is all ours as well down the bottom end . |
| 27 | ‘ I can imagine you could stand up in court and say a thing like that without blinking an eye , ’ he said as if the thought astonished him . |