Example sentences of "you could [verb] they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could tell they were having a blast doing it , and without taking the piss . ’ |
| 2 | You could tell they were having a blast — and taking the piss ’ Lenny Kaye |
| 3 | You could tell they were having a blast doing it , and without taking the piss . ’ |
| 4 | You could tell they were having a blast — and taking the piss ’ Lenny Kaye |
| 5 | Yeah but you could think they were brother and you know . |
| 6 | But most of the women over there they , you could say they 're , they 're by the age of , of childbearing |
| 7 | So , repression , it 's not that Freud dropped the concept of repression but that he elaborated it and made it much more sophisticated , and the mechanisms of defence are the means , you could say they 're the means by which er repression erm comes about . |
| 8 | No , I do n't think you could say they were engaged . |
| 9 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 10 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 11 | About the only place you could see them was on the scrap heap . |
| 12 | You could see they were English , though how this was , since they were mostly gleaming brown and both elegantly and scantily dressed , it would be hard to say . |
| 13 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |