Example sentences of "you could [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 2 | You could wear what you liked and the only bans were on people being boring or obnoxious . |
| 3 | ‘ Eventually , just from listening to albums you could tell what tunings they were using , because a lot of them were n't using a regular tuning , most of them would tune to a particular chord . |
| 4 | I was left feeling confused and wonder if you could clarify what recommendation you 'd make . |
| 5 | Or you could do what my elderly neighbour does : every time she feels like decorating she pays a neighbour 's student son to come in and do it for her . |
| 6 | With the right kind of visual material you could do what we might call " skim viewing " of the bits you do n't want to spend time on . |
| 7 | When she could make herself heard Rain begged the Josephs : ‘ Surely it would be best if you could do what you came for and leave ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Filthy dead and rotten … you could do what you like then … though I suppose you know she 's under age , there 's a law about that … ’ |
| 9 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 10 | It was a marvellous programme to work for because you could do what you liked for it . |
| 11 | You could make what you liked of it . |
| 12 | ‘ Meanwhile , ’ said Marshall , ‘ if you want a laugh you could read what the staff say they were wearing on Friday . |
| 13 | You could get what you need — pack a case . |
| 14 | Erm , oh you could get what ? |
| 15 | But there 's so many choices I mean you could have what you wanted . |
| 16 | ‘ Gone are the days when you could buy what you wanted with a pair of Levi jeans and a Jerry Lee Lewis album , ’ commented Myeloski . |
| 17 | I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me . |
| 18 | Everybody had a secret identity , so you could say what you liked and nobody knew who you really were . |
| 19 | Yeah , you could say what it looked like and what was happening and then say , Well I 'm not quite sure what the convention is for writing them |
| 20 | Erm , so you could say what does the psychological agency , the ego , do ? |
| 21 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 22 | Now in a way what you could say what we have here is a trunk of a tree and the branches and then the leaves and the fruit at different levels on this . |
| 23 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 24 | If you could catch what he said , it was often extremely funny , but hearing him was a problem . |
| 25 | Yeah If you could hear what she say it 'd make a difference I expect I 'd of gone for another vowel there , it you 'd gone for E it of been |
| 26 | They would be a better bet — you could see what you were getting . |
| 27 | If you could see what I can see |
| 28 | If you could see what I can see |
| 29 | If you could see what is going to happen in the future , you could change it . |
| 30 | She came in without so much as a ‘ by your leave ’ or a ‘ with your leave ’ … she pushed her nose into corners , and if she did n't say the place was dirty you could see what she thought right enough . |