Example sentences of "you could [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You could start a trend , dear , ’ said Francis . |
| 2 | And you could inherit a couple of million and go to Oxford . |
| 3 | You could trap a foot between the joists or something . ’ |
| 4 | However , when you move into your new house you could reestablish a garden of remembrance , a stone plaque or a special plant . |
| 5 | You could stand a spoon in the cream here , it 's so thick . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've great coal fires , and bands come in , and crowds and crowds of solid drinkers , you could stand a spoon up in the fug . |
| 7 | ‘ Just twenty bottles for lunch — She 's got such a tremendous nose You could stuff a loaf of bread in it — She 'd got such beautiful bazooms , You could fill … . ’ |
| 8 | If this report is available to the public , I should be most grateful if you could send a copy to the Library . |
| 9 | In fact , I was told of an occasion when a power-pole had to be replaced because a woodpecker had dug a hole ‘ you could hide a beer can in ’ , as my informant said ! |
| 10 | I wish you could stay a bit longer . |
| 11 | You could cook a chicken in that in about three seconds ! |
| 12 | For instance , you could choose a cushion , chair seat or bell pull , though you may wish to make something relatively simple and uncomplicated on your first attempt . |
| 13 | You may even be able to use flowers that are native to the particular country in which the composer in question was born , or match the flowers to the piece of music — you could choose a selection of country flowers for a pastoral composition , for example . |
| 14 | You could well you could choose a graph to indicate G. |
| 15 | Or do you suppose you could eat a dog and not think anything of it ? " |
| 16 | You , we 're doing fractions if you like so you could draw a half and that would be a half of three hundred and sixty . |
| 17 | You could draw a function for that . |
| 18 | Erm if you could draw a graph and use this table , N , zero , weight , whatever it comes to , erm four six eight ten . |
| 19 | And there 's some tie up , you could , you could draw a picture , and draw a line from one to the other . |
| 20 | Of if you want to separate the picture into two , you could draw a picture representing the land in the south and the land in the north . |
| 21 | They wo n't mind if it 's a false alarm , and you could prevent a burglary . |
| 22 | You could meet a millionaire or two . ’ |
| 23 | Power Toolbox goes further than this , though , as you can define a set of buttons for individual applications , so , for instance , you could design a set for Word for Windows to do things like applying styles to paragraphs , saving files in multiple formats — almost anything you choose . |
| 24 | No you could n't I mean er at you know the the doors would n't be open be I mean you know , you could picture a wardrobe without a door , but you were working you were sandpapering that on the inside and er maybe brushing it up and down and then sandpapering that again and then they had to go over with what we call the rubber . |
| 25 | ‘ You could rent a place like this , on a maintaining lease , for less than two hundred pounds a year . ’ |
| 26 | She turned round and stormed out and I followed her as she marched down the street to Mr Kiniver 's ‘ hire shop ’ where you could rent a horse and cart for two hours for one shilling . |
| 27 | You could give a computer quite a headache with an NP-complete puzzle . ’ |
| 28 | You could either pay ten rupees or , if you did n't have the money , you could give a chicken , or three households together could give a sheep . |
| 29 | You could give a talk — perhaps — on atheism . ’ |
| 30 | Each ten-acre field in turn was grazed bare — 'till; you could whip a mouse across it' — and the cattle moved round from one field to another so that they were always eating fresh , springing grass . |