Example sentences of "[vb past] you could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 3 | Denis Smith reckoned you could n't tell which was the top club … and which was the bottom … that 's a fair point … but Charlton took all three … 1-0 the final score … |
| 4 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 5 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 6 | But there was two or three there , when the strike started you could n't trust them , they were scabs from the start . |
| 7 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
| 8 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 9 | The weight of the gun in his jacket pocket and the night air , thicker here than in the city centre , it was further from the ocean , you sometimes felt you could n't breathe until you found your way to the end of the land . |
| 10 | And you thought you could just walk in — ’ |
| 11 | I saw you through the window and thought you could probably do with something to eat and drink . ’ |
| 12 | I thought you could probably take both . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you could n't stand them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you could n't stand him . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I understand now that you were trying to run from a situation you thought you could n't handle . |
| 16 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 17 | ‘ If I thought you could n't look after yourself , you see … ’ |
| 18 | Include also those items which you wanted to have in the past but dismissed because you thought you could not have them or simply forgot about them . |
| 19 | I thought you could still cuddle . |
| 20 | And even if you did you could n't get . |
| 21 | His face had grown so thin that as he spoke you could plainly see the elaborate machinery of his jaw setting to work with all its strings , sockets and pulleys . |
| 22 | Several people said you could not get anything nastier than a warm and dripping heart on a silver platter . |
| 23 | You said you could n't handle it , but you did n't stick with that . |
| 24 | I said you could n't manage on your own . |
| 25 | GILLIAN said you could n't make a general remark and then exclude half the human race , because fifty per cent of the time that someone will turn out to be female . |
| 26 | ‘ Everyone said you could n't make it , ’ Jo-Ann said . |
| 27 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 28 | She said you could n't protect yourself . |
| 29 | ‘ However , you said you could n't go . |
| 30 | warm water , and then put Savlon cream on it , vet said you could n't have done any better , cos he gave him an antidote , before I new what it was I would have given him funny itching rash that was making the poor soul |