Example sentences of "of [noun sg] you could [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course you could n't , ’ young Michael said . |
| 2 | Of course you could n't blame Hector entirely . |
| 3 | Of course you could n't . |
| 4 | So if you wanted to be a removal man you had to find the work to justify you having an A licence , but of course you could n't because you had n't got an A licence to do it with . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course you could not , ’ Miss Millicent agreed , ‘ and Violet is silly to expect an introduction . |
| 6 | Of course you could once , when they knew their place ( ’ The poor will long remember / The kind repast they did enjoy / On the 24th of September ’ ) . |
| 7 | Of course you could never forget about it . |
| 8 | Of course you could always just turn it off — but that 's not always possible , especially if the air pump is being used to run a sponge or box filter . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course you could always marry me and blame the lack of children on my war wound — ’ |
| 10 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 11 | There I had the idea of the kind of sound you could never have in the concert-hall , a sound that exists only in the imagination and in the new kind of acoustic reality we were able to create through the recording itself . |
| 12 | The most complete Collection of rock'n'roll you could ever wish to own yours on four double-length cassettes or eight LPs . |
| 13 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 14 | Yeah , what , no , tell us , what 's the maximum amount of timber you could theoretically give us on a good day . |
| 15 | The sort of voice you could just nod off to . |
| 16 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 17 | So , that now I am releasing the amount of memory you could actually use . |
| 18 | If you press even one or two types of flower you could possibly decorate a photograph of your holiday with a pressed flower mount ( see pp. 136–7 ) . |