Example sentences of "[adj] and you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 2 | My middle daughter was like that , tall and slim and you could hardly tell . |
| 3 | Whereas the , the heaters that were installed went on thermostatically controlled and er when you went in the morning , the place was nice and warm and you could apply yourself to work right away . |
| 4 | Before it gets dark and you could n't see anything anyway . |
| 5 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 6 | Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five . |
| 7 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 8 | The crowd were fabulous and you could not fault any of the players . |
| 9 | There are additional contributions with the Prudential and you could if you if you wanted you could also pay free standing A B Cs through erm a company of your own choosing . |
| 10 | born in Church Street I , I was only one , there were no brothers or sisters which for the record , I regret because all around me I had cousins , dozens of them and erm the families round me was big families and it was the , there was er times when it was bad weather or something like that and you could n't congregate outside , you 'd go to somebody 's house , are you coming ? |
| 11 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 12 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 13 | Right you could put that centre point there on that and you could draw them . |
| 14 | there was this picture of this , I do n't know if it was a man or a woman naked in a cubical and it filled , well he or she filled the cubical and you could n't see where the , the bottom began |
| 15 | Up to 10 per cent overweight and exercise occasionally If you are a little overweight for your height and are doing some moderate exercise each week , but agree that it 's not really optimum and you could be doing a lot better , you need to follow an " improver " programme . |
| 16 | Add to this the impending introduction of the reforms to community care and the prospect of a tight year of NHS spending in 1993–4 and you could forgive Virginia Bottomley for wishing she had a different portfolio . |
| 17 | But I mean the thing is here that the twenty thousand pounds , if it 's invested er into National Savings , you c you 've got another ten thousand and you could look for er a fixed return . |
| 18 | At worst they could be clumsy and inexperienced and you could be patronizing and condescending . |
| 19 | In other ways it was really petty and you could get nicked for daft little things . |
| 20 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 21 | They looked brilliant and you could always eat your way out of check , by devouring the opposition . |
| 22 | ‘ Some people were so small-minded and you could n't do anything private . |
| 23 | The twelves play like sixes and you could play an entire set on rhythm guitar with the white one here and hardly know you 'd done it . |
| 24 | She said if I were you I 'd have breakfast , she said if you had something like porridge , you 'd feel more full and you could perhaps do away with your mid morning four rounds of cheese on toast , she said , perhaps , what d' ya want ? |
| 25 | you might as well say three eighty , it 's a hundred and twenty quid more and you could sell the speakers and the deck |
| 26 | But he 's done us proud and you could say he 's an improving nine-year-old and there are n't many of those about . |
| 27 | As she bent over the intercom the little skirt went peek-a-boo and you could see white pants cupping her buttocks like a bra . |
| 28 | Edward Teller , in a reassuring article in Readers Digest , said that the human race would survive nuclear war because radioactivity was finite and you could wash off fall-out . |
| 29 | you have to go and my dad where where it was just clean and you could just sit on it but nowhere Sarah 's side . |
| 30 | You work lightly so as not to draw in the knitting or make it lumpy and you could also undo lightly worked stitches more easily . |