Example sentences of "or [pron] could [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make this silver anniversary picture , you could either press the flowers used to celebrate the day itself or you could press a selection of flowers beforehand and give the finished picture as a present at the time of the anniversary . |
| 2 | Or you could do a legalized dope poster campaign . |
| 3 | Or you could do an Arnold Schwarzenegger , just go break the lock ! |
| 4 | For example , a pressed flower design can make a lovely picture for a calendar , or you could create an appropriate design for each month of the year , composed of seasonal flowers . |
| 5 | Do n't over-react and take it out on your son or daughter before you know all the facts — or you could make a small problem bigger |
| 6 | Or you could make a Freudian explanation . |
| 7 | And if you did n't want to do national curriculum levels or it was n't appropriate then you could continue your staff comment now or you could draw a wee picture there or something like that , you know ? |
| 8 | Mats of prostrate herbs , like variegated thymes and marjorams , can be used to break up expanses of soil , or you could plant an overall ground cover of bugle , saxifrage , heather or ivy , provided room is left around the roses for annual mulches and access for pruning or cutting . |
| 9 | So I went to New York — and there were no jobs there , either , not unless you had a college degree or you could type a million billion words a minute . |
| 10 | Or you could ask a question like , What was the father ? |
| 11 | Or you could get a life instead . |
| 12 | As a policyholder , you would receive cash for a wide range of permanent disabilities or you could receive a proportion of these payments for permanent partial disabilities . |
| 13 | Or you could drive an ambulance . ’ |
| 14 | Or you could consider a modular or domino hob . |
| 15 | Or you could take a bit of a short cut say well we 've already got twelve there thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen and so on . |
| 16 | There are several restaurants and snack bars in the park to choose from , or you could take a picnic and relax in the beautiful gardens . |
| 17 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |
| 18 | Local volunteer schemes may be able to arrange a regular visitor or you could contact an employment agency or advertise for a kindly ‘ sitter ’ . |
| 19 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 20 | Or you could put a little gunnysack full of food on a big boom , and you could control their speed by the way you would swing it . ’ |
| 21 | You could either buy a lot of 10V , 5 per cent Zeners and sort out one with the right voltage ( up to 10.5V is possible at 5 per cent tolerance ) , or you could use a 9.1V Zener in series with two high-current silicon rectifiers , which will drop about 0.5V each . |
| 22 | Beware of matching too many colours together — if you have chosen a fairly strong coloured mount then it may be easier to have a plain white or cream silk as the background , or you could use a plain mount card in a neutral shade like cream , behind the coloured mount of your choice . |
| 23 | Or you could use a recording as an example of the performance of a task you set the students — the preparation of a report for example . |
| 24 | Or you could use a text which has been translated from one medium into another . |
| 25 | For example , you might have a regiment of halberdiers and a detachment of hand gunners , or you could have a regiment of hand gunners with a detachment of swordsmen plus a detachment of spearmen . |
| 26 | already know them or you could have a good guess at them . |
| 27 | Or you could have a visual mounted display on the boards outside for |
| 28 | Er if you were er some people had a gas ring , you know , not a cooker , a gas ring those sort of ring that you can boil a kettle on , or you could have a saucepan . |
| 29 | A smaller bitmap can be tiled , as this is , or you could have a small object placed in the corner or centred . |
| 30 | I mean you could go out , and you could put a little bit of money in the building society , or the bank , or you could have a gamble on the Stock Exchange , but we have two advantages . |