Example sentences of "then you could [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
2 | If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter . |
3 | For example if you spent four thousand pounds on the hardware , then you could well spend fifteen hundred or two thousand pounds on the software . |
4 | If they are a member of the public in a road accident case , then you could just approach them direct as you would any other witness . |
5 | If you have n't got it then you could just , er other people just could be nice when they marry you and say that it |
6 | Then you could just pinpoint them all |
7 | You used to And then you could also go to the local farmer 's and take away a quart jug , for two penn'orth of skimmed milk . |
8 | You would n't expect much speed out of it , but then you could confidentially run it over any terrain without adverse effect . |
9 | right , you 've made yourself a , your , twenty thousand anyway , then you could probably buy a , a nice little two bedroom bungalow |
10 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
11 | But as far as that 's concerned , er I mean the , the house can be passed over to you , and would then become , er you would own the house but er unless you dispose of it , there 'd be no liability to a gain , and er of course , at that time er if your parents in it rent free at the time of their er leaving the house , then you could then dispose of that without erm erm er liability . |
12 | You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator . |
13 | If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it . |
14 | And then you could perhaps tinkle the ivories . |
15 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
16 | Then you could like start attracting , I think , younger people to read newspapers again . |
17 | well then , then you could really , would be , I 'll always start on , you could go down the police station and have a word with them , see what they think , and they 'll probably put you in touch with somebody , cos they know everything they know what |
18 | So y I 've got to weigh up whether I 'm actually going to make a profit over four years or whether it 's going to be , but I 'm not doing it for that it 's not so much making a profit as the fact that I can secure the loan for four years and know that I have n't got any extra to , to find , and when you 've retired , if you 've got say seven years on your mortgage and you 're thinking well if mortgage rates go up erm I could get stuffed you know if they doubled again then you could actually fix on that assumption . |
19 | So then you could actually say something like that , the item purchased is , check that it 's suffice to your requirements . |