Example sentences of "you could [adv] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could also say he was driven there by the railway . |
| 2 | You could even give him a hundred that 's all I 'm givi I 'm giving my da my ma two hundred pound . |
| 3 | I was saying , ‘ Just think what fun it 's going to be , following Cilla Black … ’ and you could just see him succumbing . ’ |
| 4 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 5 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 6 | You could n't fool him , we used to play hide and seek and you could n't fool him . |
| 7 | You could n't fool him , we used to play hide and seek and you could n't fool him . |
| 8 | You could n't expect him to be logical , I should 've learnt that by now . |
| 9 | You could n't blame him for losing his cool . ’ |
| 10 | You could n't miss him . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought you could n't stand him . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 13 | You could n't hold him , and I do n't wonder , because you had nothing a man like Walter would want . |
| 14 | You could n't get him to talk about anything else . |
| 15 | You could n't get him to alter his ways . |
| 16 | He was saying sorry on Tuesday but you could n't fault him here , ’ said Lions boss Mick McCarthy . |
| 17 | You could n't say he lost by a short head — he was n't even in the frame ! |
| 18 | ‘ You could n't find him ? ’ |
| 19 | Maggie started to laugh , saying , ; ‘ If you could n't find him among the five hundred there 's less chance you 'll find him among the fifty . ’ |
| 20 | You could n't trust him . |
| 21 | But you could n't trust him if something upset him not to act up . |
| 22 | But , at the end of the day , you could n't trust him . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I 'd tell you , because you could probably help him . |
| 24 | As Professor Housman used to say , ‘ Stand on a barrel in the streets of Baghdad and say twice two are four and ginger is hot in the mouth and therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God , and it is unlikely that anyone would question your reasoning ; but if he should be bold enough to do so , you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah you could , you could perhaps get him on that , yes . |
| 26 | I know that no harm will come to me — and so would you if you could only see him . |
| 27 | You could never fool him with a note and he never let you get away with anything . ’ |
| 28 | From a distance you could never tell he was Mexican . |
| 29 | ‘ He was n't 100 per cent fit , but you could never write him off . |
| 30 | You could almost hear him purring when he got near anything wi' cogs and pistons . ’ |