Example sentences of "[vb past] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you concentrated you could make them all line up , in 3-D ; and then it would all just collapse and be jiggling spots again . |
| 2 | If only Italy believed you could get ahead without it , simply by doing things well . |
| 3 | I really believed you could take that way out . |
| 4 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 6 | As you passed you could hear them murmuring ‘ Ya Allah ! |
| 7 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 8 | Looking at it , Nutty realized you could use the Smiths ' bath without the Smiths knowing . |
| 9 | Some say if it rained you could fish in a footprint , |
| 10 | Denis Smith reckoned you could n't tell which was the top club … and which was the bottom … that 's a fair point … but Charlton took all three … 1-0 the final score … |
| 11 | That was when Man discovered you could blow molten glass into a bubble at the end of a long metal pipe . |
| 12 | One minute you discovered you could do a falsetto , the next that there was a reason why a woman had given you a sweet . |
| 13 | But with a bit of money spent you could have a nice little spinney there — be pretty in the spring . |
| 14 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 15 | ‘ I heard you could eat any amount of steak and you 'd lose loads of weight ’ , or ‘ did n't I read somewhere that you are n't supposed to eat carbohydrate and protein at the same meal ? ’ |
| 16 | But by Christmas 1978 ads warned you could get caught , lose your licence , your job , your girlfriend — and your passengers ' lives in a crash . |
| 17 | If there are others interested you could lose the house by trying to reduce the price . |
| 18 | Sometimes we got to be down at Bullard 's brewery by six o clock in the morning with a load , because they 'd start loading the beer up at six o'clock ; and if you were n't in the yard afore they started you could n't get in at all . |
| 19 | But there was two or three there , when the strike started you could n't trust them , they were scabs from the start . |
| 20 | And there if you went you could see them : |
| 21 | Some were split and bent almost double by their own mass , which meant you could charge straight up them into the lower branches six feet above ground . |
| 22 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |
| 23 | ‘ All that stuff about community meant you could leave the kids with your mum if you had something to do , and you would n't grass on Charlie if the police came looking for him , and you could borrow ten bob to keep you going to the end of the week . |
| 24 | Cos after all a coin was a , had a monetary value that meant you could go and buy something with it . |
| 25 | She could barely breathe , her heart pounding so hard that she had to shout shakily , ‘ Because I knew it meant you could n't have married me for my father 's company , and I wanted to find out why you 'd lied about it . ’ |
| 26 | He was disappointed by her news as the loss of the big one also meant you could go home . |
| 27 | Wella 's high quality , creamy formulations give you a look you never dreamed you could achieve at home . |
| 28 | The weight of the gun in his jacket pocket and the night air , thicker here than in the city centre , it was further from the ocean , you sometimes felt you could n't breathe until you found your way to the end of the land . |
| 29 | And when you sat , trembling forgetfully , on one of the benches in the frosted gardens , with the grass like white hair standing on end , you felt you could hear the ghosts of the children 's cries and shouts — for here they must surely have played in their packs . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose it was because you had such respect for him that you felt you could leave him in charge of the boarders tonight ? ’ |