Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [vb infin] your [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If I could just take your address . ’
2 We can play chess and I could probably correct your anti-materialist views on the coal industry in a matter of moments . ’
3 ‘ If I could perhaps have your address for delivery please , Miss Milligan , ’ the chief assistant requested .
4 Of course , I could never have your patience and study the stock exchange prices , Molly Coddle .
5 If yours is the kind of garden that is attractive to hedgehogs — lots of cover , plenty of natural food and close to other good habitats — then you could well find your offer of a house taken up this winter .
6 You could even enjoy your wine-tasting as a pre-dinner drink , as you wo n't need your car for this short journey .
7 And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all , and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some for , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version .
8 And presumably if you wanted to revise a book at all and you had the book on your floppy disk or in your computer in some form , you could again use your word processor to bring it up to date in a revised version ?
9 Dorcas does n't believe in you , and I certainly do n't believe in you , but if you could just see your way clear to existing just long enough for us to find them , we 'd all appreciate it very much .
10 You could just put your initial in the corner .
11 And it was , it was really cheap , I mean , it was a sort of a rose and I think the whole box only cost him , one pound fifty , or something , you could probably run your car off it .
12 When Berg describes the Goldwyns moving house , moreover , to 1800 Camino Palmero or 1200 Laurel Lane , you could probably find your way round the properties blindfold on his description .
13 If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it .
14 I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly .
15 Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone .
16 ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ?
17 I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions .
18 I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions .
19 and you could write off barrels , you could still improve your barrel er , your barrels a week int it ?
20 They looked brilliant and you could always eat your way out of check , by devouring the opposition .
21 you could always change your hairstyle you know that ?
22 You could always say your spending more
23 It could even save your life … one day .
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