Example sentences of "that you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 2 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 3 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 4 | Mr Carey added : ‘ You were so keen to have your own way with her that you disregarded the fact that you could have made her pregnant . ’ |
| 5 | There was no more objective reason why firearms should not have been used in burglaries and bank hold-ups thirty or sixty years ago than today ; but it ‘ was n't done ’ — until it was discovered that it was done , that you could do it . |
| 6 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 7 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 8 | She curled up in the position she had slept in as a child ; and realised with a sinking heart that it was not only the most comfortable way of being in bed , but it was also one that you could not adopt in company . |
| 9 | I worry about what was certainly a facet of the past in this country — a view that you could be a professional director of dozens of companies . |
| 10 | It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town . |
| 11 | It was to prevent bad development and to show that you could build decent houses with gardens at rents people could afford and also that you could develop a community , which is why he was never in favour of a company town . |
| 12 | ‘ He taught me that you could win without having the fastest car , by tactics and organisation . |
| 13 | And the bathrooms — of course every room has one — are so deep in soft , white towels that you could happily sleep there . |
| 14 | Very much in the spirit of the age , the hall , dining-room and drawingroom all open into each other with great double doors , so that you could entertain on a grand scale . |
| 15 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 16 | He had designed the first ‘ luxury ’ cinemas in the land , the most famous of which was the Regent in Brighton , showing that you could be lavish without being vulgar . |
| 17 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 18 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 19 | I could n't help but notice that you could not find an appropriate country for Brian Mulroney , Canada 's prime minister . |
| 20 | But the chair had been very expensive , with a foot-rest and a back that you could raise and lower by using a lever on the arm . |
| 21 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 22 | I am distraught to learn of the demise of your mother and shut my ears to the ugly rumour that you had her put to death so that you could take up ballet-dancing . |
| 23 | ‘ The rate of work with an umbilical hose system is much higher than that you could achieve with one man and a tanker driving from store to field . ’ |
| 24 | Deep down in those subconscious depths was the suggestion that you could make people believe anything you wanted them to believe , if only you knew how to pronounce the magic formula that brought the genie from the bottle . |
| 25 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 26 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 27 | Ellen , I would that you could come to me now that you are alone and would ask you to consider it seriously . |
| 28 | Why should you choose , if you could , and I do not say that you could , to leave your children ? |
| 29 | We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending . |
| 30 | ‘ Normally I 'm accused of the reverse , ’ he says dryly , adding that you could not slip a playing card between him and the rest of the shadow Cabinet on policy . |