Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning from downwind to base at around 500 feet I found that you could almost pull the throttle completely back and make a glide approach . |
| 2 | When I think of the trouble you caused because you could n't keep your private parts to yourself ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , you asked if you could help . ’ |
| 4 | Suddenly her daughter telephoned me and said , ‘ My mother asked if you could come as she has agreed to let you have those two things you wanted . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Cunningham asked if you could spare him a few minutes before leaving the hotel . |
| 6 | The good care there 's one other thing that we talked briefly about in the signs and symptoms and what happened that you could check for you look at a baby , what else do you do ? |
| 7 | Einstein 's paper showed that you could directly observe individual quanta . |
| 8 | Oh you you you paid but you could always get a place there I could remember a lot of parking time when I was n't driving . |
| 9 | Guards were either abruptly mistrustful or effusively friendly when they discovered that you could speak their language . |
| 10 | I heard that you could buy anything from silver shoes to precious pewter , choose from a selection of 85 old thimbles or 150 foreign book matches , or pounce , if you were lucky , on beautiful buckles made from George IV or Victorian crown pieces . |
| 11 | erm This also meant that you could n't move around very fast , the clothes were so tightly made , that for a large part of the time , you were immobile and glad to be , glad to be so . |
| 12 | What he most liked , so he explained , was the feeling that from that proximate stretch , you felt that you could set sail , if the impulse took you , to any part of the world . |
| 13 | And after all , I knew that you could n't plead a prior engagement . ’ |
| 14 | I simply phoned them and erm they put , they put it up so that I could buy things on Access that I could get , well I mean those were the days when I knew that you could sell a house like |
| 15 | The same if you were thinking of murdering this person and you knew that you could be traced you 'd bloody think twice if you were gon na be hanged or chaired . |
| 16 | If the wolf were sick , mother , and I thought that you could . ’ |
| 17 | And what the difference is that er , we thought that you could have one young person per district and that they only have to pay thirty two pounds each , but I think these are only purely |
| 18 | We knew if you could catch it , it 'd be a great wave . ’ |
| 19 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 20 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |
| 21 | The restructuring school answered that you could not do that anyway , because the importance of a variable precisely depended on the wider context in which it was operating , but the most important contextual reason was probably manufacturing industry 's need to cut costs in face of newly increasing competition . |
| 22 | So what is the best way to do , that where you ask the questions , now they did if you could help me out is the when you do one section an you hand all your papers in somebody else marks them |
| 23 | It 's not worthy , Councillor to try and link trivial trivial politics to score points , to score points , to score points , to score points to score points at the attacks on people with disabilities , in the trivial way that you did because you could n't remember the policy . |
| 24 | I decided that anything which said that you could have as much mayonnaise , avocados and nuts as you like and still do yourself good must be worth trying ! |
| 25 | The children who were with him that night said that you could hear his screams three blocks away . |
| 26 | Unfortunately that empty but we had a little light entertainment when you first came here er especially the way you rode your bicycles er we , we sincerely hoped that you could fly your aeroplanes a little better than that . |
| 27 | ‘ She said if you could spare an hour … she 'd just come back and said he was very low and asking for you . |
| 28 | He said he told him the story and he said if you could just get back to Greentoft , he says , I would give you the best two cattle out of my byre . |
| 29 | If you ever needed , needed a suit , you did that once before , but that 's what you said if you could get a suit , would you wear it though ? |
| 30 | That 's what I said , a hundred and ninety pound , I said if you could do my house for that I 'd be laughing ! |