Example sentences of "[noun] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the middle of the window was a shiny red car you could sit in with a driver 's wheel you could turn and a horn you could peep . |
| 2 | We can cut money off , let's make some easy quick decisions about cutting money off , let's chop out the arts you could do that on one line easily and I think you have to look at the long term you have to look at what happens in terms of our culture , our civilization if you do do that , how people change and to me it 's about and that was raised last night too about how an saying that they had put a limit on the cost of opera tickets forty pounds , compared |
| 3 | By stocking slowly in the first six months you could increase this slightly , to 25″ . |
| 4 | ‘ Then in a few months you could have a thriving business here , Mr Robinson . |
| 5 | At a glance you could think she really was asleep . ’ |
| 6 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 7 | Till we get the thicker card you could start the painting . |
| 8 | It is clear , though , that if you decide to help your elderly parent or parents to apply for local authority grants , you are probably going to need to have great determination and infinite patience , and in the meantime there is a great deal you could do yourself to improve their comfort and living conditions in small but important ways . |
| 9 | When she crossed her legs you could almost see her stocking-tops . |
| 10 | Half-way along the back of the lower legs you could see the vicious spur with which the birds fought . |
| 11 | In each gear you could tell the carburettors were better balanced after 12,000 miles as the slower increments always favoured the later set of figures . |
| 12 | Right if you have n't if you ca n't find the dictionary you could look in the paper see what time Neighbours is on . |
| 13 | John Beishon , director of the Consumers ' Association You could argue that food difficulties proceed and contribute to the development of sexual problems … |
| 14 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 15 | If you shaded your eyes you could just make it out : a gleaming band of silver right across the horizon . |
| 16 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 17 | With savings of £20,000 you could expect to finance a franchise with a start-up cost and working capital of £60,000 . |
| 18 | For example , when the subject of your speech is a soldier you could start , ‘ According to the British Grenadiers , Some talk of Alexander , and some of Hercules , and others of Lysander and such great names as these . ’ |
| 19 | Below are some guidelines you could give them for using video on their own . |
| 20 | You could interrogate me , at least , and if you thought I was a double agent you could put a bullet in my head . |
| 21 | Under one roof you could buy food , clothes and electrical goods and park just outside . |
| 22 | Jigsaws you could n't do or dull stamps |
| 23 | They were the crowd whose heads you could not see over . |
| 24 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 25 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | as if you would have a polish day every Friday you could put it on Thursday night . |
| 28 | It 's not your fault you could n't , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 29 | It was cruel , of course , to bring someone of Estabrook 's age out on a cold day , and make him climb a hill , but Gentle knew from experience you took whatever satisfactions you could along the way . |
| 30 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |