Example sentences of "could [verb] you [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then suddenly I just could n't take it any longer — the knowledge that the only effect I had on you was sexual , the only way I could influence you was physically , whereas you loved Jones , as I thought ; your relationship with him was emotional … |
| 2 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
| 3 | That way they could see you are treating them equally even though your daughter 's children are less bother . |
| 4 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 5 | It 's right , it 's correct it is minus twelve but I could see you were really not very sure what you should be doing about that , that 's great , you 've found , you 've got that down to there , let's have a little look at the number line , zero , one , two , three and so on , minus one , minus two , minus three , minus four . |
| 6 | ‘ I could see you were a cultured person , ’ Kring went on . |
| 7 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 8 | yes , that 's the money supply and measures , the measures of money supply I 'm sure you 'll be okay you should beat what I got anyway , cos I saw it sort of cold I could see you were put into shits of boredom , they go totally over the top most of the time my parents |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 10 | Bear in mind that a block could indicate you are resisting a radical change of direction . |
| 11 | Often you could wish you were an audience of millions instead of one . |
| 12 | Not gaining weight could mean you 're not meeting the increased dietary needs of pregnancy , the risk being that you are more like to have a low birthweight baby . |
| 13 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 14 | Even Walter could tell you were a ninety-ninth-rate poetess with a grand manner , and a liking for getting people in your coils . |
| 15 | I could tell you were going to be a Southwell one . |
| 16 | The only way I could protect you was to make myself scarce that evening . ’ |
| 17 | That implied commitment , and if you did n't have commitment , you could pretend you were free . |
| 18 | You could imagine you were prospecting some dark land and seeing camp fires , or signal fires , or fires that were the only known evidence of a hidden tribe . |
| 19 | You could say you were a friend of Billy 's and — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Sir John , I wish I could say you were welcome . ’ |
| 21 | So yes , it 's one to forty ca n't be one to forty five because you have n't had tea well if you had tea you could say you were fortified |