Example sentences of "you could do [adv] " in BNC.

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1 All you could do deep down was to pray it would n't be you for the chop .
2 I think he 's got a good idea here but if he takes that slant to his story you could do rather well .
3 So was there anything that you could do apart from leaving it to your husband ?
4 If you are elderly or widowed , organisations like Age Concern and CRUSE will actually help you with the practical details and , if not in either of these categories , you could do no better than go to your nearest Citizens ' Advice Bureau for some help .
5 The School Board is writing to support this initiative , and it would be most helpful if you could do likewise .
6 Those you could do straight away .
7 If you go immediately to Grasmere — unless other fish are being fried , but your letters are too vague for me to judge — ( what are you doing ? ) — then I think you could do well .
8 I mean you 've got quite a lot of movement in there and , and you could do quite a bit for him .
9 If horses are offered at very short odds , odds-on , then the statistics demonstrate that overall you could do quite well by betting on them .
10 If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys .
11 You could do actually cos I 've had some in the bottom underneath .
12 You could do that much , do the three times three times five and that gives you forty five but we 're looking for ninety .
13 You could do worse … ' ) .
14 You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ .
15 If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules .
16 If you would rather not grow your own , or you do not have the time to look after them , you could do worse than invest in artificial plants , which are quite stunningly realistic nowadays .
17 For a really cheap and cheerful gathering of friends you could do worse than invest in a fondue set and a plastic tablecloth and let everyone sit around dipping their bread into the cheese fondue , while holding a glass of nice wine in the other hand .
18 You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book .
19 Mother-of-so-many said : ‘ You 're of an age and you could do worse .
20 So , if you like your music lively and do n't mind walking on a carpet of comatose students — you could do worse .
21 You could do worse . ’
22 The shadow side of his success was that of failure , watered by the constant accusing refrain that ‘ You are not good enough ; you could do better ; you will never get on if you do n't try ; God will not accept you if you do n't try harder … ‘
23 There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse .
24 You could do better by telling what you know .
25 " How can you say that , how can you say that , " said Clelia , " by saying that you are condemning me , you 're criticizing me , you 're implying that I talk too much , God knows I do , but surely you could do better ?
26 She thought you could do better than that .
27 I 'd have thought you could do better than that , Miss Holbrook .
28 So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so .
29 You could do more with a nine to ten , eh nine to twelve .
30 You could do in advance or you could do retrospectively or
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