Example sentences of "you could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 2 | ‘ Ye could gie me a wee bit . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ye could fly ye on a kite . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ye could sell it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If there is n't , you could start one . ’ |
| 7 | But er she does want to pay it back , she does want to pay it back , and er well she wants to pay it back , erm , if you could start it this time next year she 'd be er she would be grateful for that . |
| 8 | It has four areas , I happen to have chosen to start it on the point , you could start it look at , you can see area , but , this , just look at erm , it 's this way round . |
| 9 | You could start your own playgroup so if you want any help or advice contact the Pre-School Playgroup Association ( address opposite ) . |
| 10 | You could start your holiday with a one hour round-trip by boat . |
| 11 | Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’ |
| 12 | That was the best way to find out how good you were at your job , whether you could regard yourself as being on a par with the best — or still had a lot to learn . |
| 13 | You could regard it as that part of the personality which is contr in control of voluntary thought and movement . |
| 14 | has written the comment , i.e. the member of staff has written it , you could then have something underneath if you wish to , that is the pupil 's , that will be obviously the pupil 's from the different writing , or the style of the writing er or you could open it up with we have agreed , if you wish to one make it a joint |
| 15 | So I went down and Mr at that time was Mayor of Willenhall , a very influential man , and he was er over and er his son had to became in charge , but anyway I went to see him it was Mr and er about it and he says er well we got er a order for four locks here , he says er I wonder if er you could quote me for them ? |
| 16 | If she is very apprehensive about how she is going to manage her role in society as a woman on her own , you could remind her of something she has probably completely forgotten : that she coped with life quite adequately as a single woman , before she met her husband , so there is no reason to suppose that she can not do so again , and possibly even better now because of the love they shared and her greater maturity . |
| 17 | And you referred to two sorts of allocations , one , those in adopted local plans and the figure was if you could remind me please . |
| 18 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 19 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 20 | ‘ By so doing , you could place yourself in danger , my lady — that should be good reason enough . ’ |
| 21 | You just stood it Well you could stand it like it it is then . |
| 22 | Well , i if if you you could combine it with with with the chair , that would be , |
| 23 | Do you think you could switch me back on ? |
| 24 | It 's a three-day Congress er and what we do in our Guild , we have , we had a house party on a Tuesday night and she 's told me she made twenty-six Pounds and erm we , we send our , our delegate Congress with that money you see , er because you see , er women would not if you could n't say you could sponsor them . |
| 25 | If it 's Y equals L squared you could differentiate it |
| 26 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 27 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 28 | ‘ Master Lieutenant , I would be grateful if you could gather everyone in Mistress Philippa 's chamber . |
| 29 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 30 | If you could send one soon , I should be glad . |