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 |