Example sentences of "[that] you could [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And there was also a strange sound , so quiet that you could miss it but which , once you had noticed it , also seemed to fill up the world .
2 Then she added with a light laugh , ‘ I do not think , Creggan , that you could stop me . ’
3 Do you think that you could stop me ? ’
4 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 .
5 So that you could do it like that .
6 Ever since you raped and killed that cadet in military school … just to show yourself that you could do it .
7 so that when it er , come apart you would have some of it together and some of it would bond together so that you could do it yourself then .
8 ‘ You mean ’ , she said , ‘ that you could tell me what two times twenty-eight is ? ’
9 Do n't you wish that you could possess him again just like you own Hosanna ?
10 ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae .
11 How I wish that you could love me
12 And so that you could send them the information about it all , and then James is just talking into the camera , saying , oh I 'm really glad that this is happening , the band 's gon na be really happy , finally we 're on our way , bla bla , and then it ends .
13 Do you think that you could send it on ?
14 That you could make it in the movies with no boobs to speak of was , until recently , an alien notion .
15 Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ?
16 ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back .
17 about school er further education on , on the magazine and I felt that perhaps , bearing in mind what he 'd said earlier about I have n't had any contact with you for thirteen years , that might have been something that you could 've you know reinforced a bit well we 've now got financial advisers , the other thing or one of the other things we 're doing is , is this contact magazine which we 're sending out to policy holders and it , you know , it helps to bridge the gap as it were .
18 ‘ And you asked her to give it to you so that you could return it to Rick .
19 so if you had a date in November that you could give me , time to get people together
20 So that they just needed more or less scrubbing out and put on Put into drainers , you know just a big piece of wood with holes cut in so that you could fit them in and would n't fall off , and dry them over the heat .
21 well you remember er when we sat down this evening I said there was a couple of ways that you could help me , one of these ways was that er you might be able to introduce me to one or two of your friends and I can run through the same ideas with them .
22 I was actually going to give to you Sue , so that you could test them but I understand you 've already got some new ones ?
23 See if there 's something down here that you could read we could play schools this afternoon .
24 Well erm my Lord I do n't know whether you 'd like to take certainly the rest of the afternoon and sit again tomorrow at ten thirty to get a clean start , having read all the documentation or whether you feel that you could read it before then .
25 ‘ You said you wanted to meet my fiancée so that you could judge her for yourself .
26 BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE never seems to stop talking , you get the feeling that you could ask him about anything under the sun and he would have one of his long and winding answers all ready for us to vaguely follow .
27 Glamorgan is way up on Devil 's Peak , and the sight of misty blue clouds hovering over its rocky peaks , so low that you feel that you could touch them , is so awe-inspiring that one feels all it needs is God 's voice thundering from the sky to make you fall flat on your face and worship .
28 ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’
29 They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er
30 No that was some drops of acid that you could see We 're trying to work out what the properties of this gas if you 're not listening you wo n't be able to do number four .
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