Example sentences of "you could [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think potentially Professor Lock you could be inventing some work for barristers given that Policy I eleven says provision will not be made . |
| 2 | ( In the time it takes you to read this you could be enjoying it . ) |
| 3 | Act now and you could be enjoying ripe strawberries from your own garden during late June and early July . |
| 4 | Installation is quick and clean , and very soon you could be enjoying a warm , comfortable swim whatever the weather . |
| 5 | I says well I never knew you could be overtired she says oh yes you can . |
| 6 | Cos that 's the most frustrating thing about fishing is when you 're like you know , you could be wasting that , you , you think to yourself like I could be wasting a whole , there 's not a fish anywhere round here ! |
| 7 | You could be mistaken for thinking that on the other side of the plain red door is another harbour based company . |
| 8 | Once you begin to experiment you could be inspired into creating a whole host of ideas for long and narrow designs . |
| 9 | This is well worth pursuing as you could be owed money from one or more schemes , which will all add to your pension on retirement day . |
| 10 | However , it is worth taking the time to make a careful selection — after all , you could be living with your choice for 24 hours a day , 365 days a year , for the next 10 years . |
| 11 | If you are not ready to deal with the problem of alcohol misuse if and when it occurs , one day you could be faced with a crisis . |
| 12 | Obviously this idea has to be thought out in advance , and if your friend or family move during the winter then you could be faced with a big problem in trying to gather enough material to make an attractive and interesting picture . |
| 13 | Rather more serious , if you buy a new home before selling your existing one , you could be faced by a bridging loan problem , which with continuing high interest rates could soon eat into any profits you hope to realise on the exchange . |
| 14 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 15 | If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk . |
| 16 | I mean you could be laying in bed , which are downstairs , and someone could throw summat through a window . |
| 17 | What you have to steal : If you have an expensive car sitting in the driveway , or inadvertently let slip in the pub about your latest classy hi-fi , you could be drawing attention to your house as being potentially worth breaking into . |
| 18 | Just think , some day you could be telling your grandchildren , ‘ Yes , I first saw your grandpa through a pair of binoculars . |
| 19 | You have to have a stu , a good familiarity with organic momegiture if you do n't , you could be throwing marks away even before you get in that exam room ! |
| 20 | ‘ You could be competing in the backstroke at Southport , and then have to travel to Cleethorpes or Torquay for the free style or breaststroke . |
| 21 | Why stay rooted to the spot while some shaman with a drum machine picks your pocket when you could be flying high with Coil ? |
| 22 | Mm , because you , you erm have er the , obviously that you could be sent some dubious tapes ? |
| 23 | You could be born disabled , diseased or dead . |
| 24 | You could be charged with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty . ’ |
| 25 | But hold on , you could be thinking by now , do n't impugn all British manhood just because a few sexually ( or excrementally ) repressed junior accountants get a kick out of shag jokes . |
| 26 | The dust is diabolical — at one stage you could be fired for using a sweeping brush and not a vacuum . |
| 27 | ‘ Not that anyone as beautiful as you could be ignored of course . |
| 28 | You could be looking at a minimum of one , two , three years ' salary , because you might be thinking well at least that 'll give me a chance to get on , to get back on my feet . |
| 29 | But first of all Brian 's going to talk about some of the outlets and the sort of things that you could be looking for . |
| 30 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |