Example sentences of "you could [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could start your holiday with a one hour round-trip by boat . |
| 2 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
| 3 | You could pay your mortgage on what you smoked ! |
| 4 | " You could invent an argument with her — and have a huge blazing row — and then you could demand your freedom . " |
| 5 | You are bound to lose her trust and you could wreck your marriage . |
| 6 | You are bound to lose her trust and you could wreck your marriage . |
| 7 | England used to be a country with red pillar boxes and policemen with red noses and decent law-abiding citizens you could eat your dinner off . |
| 8 | As he put it : ‘ You could blow your budget by 15% without consciously doing anything . ’ |
| 9 | You could borrow my dad 's , though . |
| 10 | very good , yeah , I say you could borrow my printer again , but that 's , that packed up you know |
| 11 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 12 | If you spotted P. D. James , the crime novelist , in a street anywhere from Canton to Buenos Aires , you could guess her nationality at once . |
| 13 | Then you could meet my mother . |
| 14 | Do you imagine that I could forgive and forget , knowing what I know now , or that any of you could meet my eye , knowing what you do ? |
| 15 | Alternatively you could extend your walk from the summit of Grisedale Pike and head over south-west to Hopegill Head and join the forest road at Swinside . |
| 16 | You could lift his forelock up like that and you 'd see his brain working . |
| 17 | ‘ You could wear my fur jacket , ’ Ianthe suggested . |
| 18 | Or you could give your room an interesting old country look by adding a ‘ wainscot ’ of boarding to a free wall , or at least some moulding at dado level . |
| 19 | I said : ‘ You could tell his wife … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Magnificence , you could attract their attention . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps you could pass your Medau News on to friends with an encouragement to them also to join a class . |
| 22 | Given a large aquarium , a varied diet and a lot of it , you could expect your Snakehead to reach almost its full length of about 100cm . |
| 23 | Then put the pin in , then you could load your hopper . |
| 24 | Do you think you could change her nappy for me ? |
| 25 | Perhaps you could change your name to Gamboge Yellow and be a different person . |
| 26 | It 's so small you could change your scale . |
| 27 | When you grow up you could change your mind , you know . ’ |
| 28 | You could change your mind three times in as many seconds , and that was the exhausting thing about being in love . |
| 29 | ‘ You could change your coat first . ’ |
| 30 | You might say you could measure its position to ten decimal places , but you could always then measure it to eleven and predict a completely different result ; all the difference between a whirlwind which knocked down someone 's house and a single molecule of oxygen disappearing up their nose . |