Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [vb infin] your [noun] " 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 | ‘ No matter how hard I tried I could never reach your standards . |
| 5 | Of course , I could never have your patience and study the stock exchange prices , Molly Coddle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Also , by making a proper Will you could well save your dependants from paying an unnecessary amount of inheritance tax ( death duties ) . |
| 8 | You could even enjoy your wine-tasting as a pre-dinner drink , as you wo n't need your car for this short journey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You could just put your initial in the corner . |
| 13 | So , for instance , you could either have your cards in German ( or another language ) and can have as an illustration reindeer ( prancing , not prancing , or roasted ) , French sheep or Jacques Delors . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You could probably increase your chances by doing a TV or video course like the one organised by Morley College . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections . |
| 18 | You could easily categorise your addresses into five sections . |
| 19 | If you knew what the combination of circumstances were , then you could perhaps re-do your spreadsheet with a different way to avoid it . |
| 20 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 23 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 24 | I had got used to the pace over there which was so slow you could almost walk your way into scoring positions . |
| 25 | and you could write off barrels , you could still improve your barrel er , your barrels a week int it ? |
| 26 | They looked brilliant and you could always eat your way out of check , by devouring the opposition . |
| 27 | you could always change your hairstyle you know that ? |
| 28 | You could always say your spending more |
| 29 | I was painfully thin at the time and he commented , ‘ We could almost touch your shoulder-blades as you dashed past with plates of chips . ’ |
| 30 | It could even save your life … one day . |