Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
2 | Remember , you could combine trips ; or how about a tour followed by a relaxing week in whichever resort takes your fancy in this brochure ? |
3 | And therefore you could associate liberalism and nationalism with war , terror erm and perhaps therefore it was n't all that desirable . |
4 | And on that there was a typewriter and you could send signal messages , and everything . |
5 | Perhaps nearer the time you could send details of the weekend course plus the costing for it . |
6 | Now , you can see that coin down there , if you look carefully , you can see it you ca n't get it , you know where it is , it has n't gone through a hole into the centre of the earth it has n't , sort of , disappeared into outer space , you know exactly where it is , the chances are you could pin point it within a few inches of where i , even if you ca n't see it you know where it is , but you ca n't get at it to you , it 's lost you know it 's geographic location , you know when it went there , you know everything about it , you only thing is you ca n't get at it ! |
7 | Or , you could fix floor to ceiling mirror panels to the walls , either at right angles to the window , or on the wall opposite . |
8 | If you used a hardwood sill , you could fix draught-strip to it instead of the door . |
9 | And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses . |
10 | They 're practically touching actually if , if they , if they had a balcony and Tony had a balcony you could shake hands |
11 | ‘ Right , Sister Hennessy , if you could prepare Queenie — you do n't mind if we call you Queenie ? |
12 | ‘ You never told me you could cook lasagne . ’ |
13 | The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . |
14 | Next thing you could 'ear bits of wood and such — bits of the boat , like — falling into the river . |
15 | Or you could plant blocks of distinct colours , divided by a neutral foliage plant . |
16 | Rosemary has said she is willing to be one , and I 'd be grateful if you could suggest names for others . |
17 | If you could eat frost , you might think |
18 | Further to my letter of 14 September , I would appreciate it if you could return details of your sport 's major events for 1990 by Friday 3 November . |
19 | I suppose in a way you could draw parallels with the old Samson and Delilah story , ’ he said , leaning forward in his seat to make his point . |
20 | ‘ And if you could meet Swire Sugden yourself he might listen to you being an honourable an' all that , ’ said Otley to my amazement , I never knew he was a royalist . |
21 | ‘ You could meet Luxembourg cabinet ministers or members of the royal family doing their shopping on a Saturday morning . ’ |
22 | I want to thank Mum and Dad for throwing this lovely party so that you could meet Annabelle and her family ( or Steven and his family ) . |
23 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
24 | Er , one good example , as cited er , er , a term policy , if you could n't cite one that he had himself , you could cite examples so that people know about it . |
25 | ‘ You could excuse God for thinking He was perhaps beyond fashion — ’ |
26 | These brushes soak up unwanted colour but are soft against the paper — mind you , as the Bockingford paper will withstand a lot of scrubbing , you could lift colour out with other stiffer brushes if you wanted to . |
27 | So you could relate positivity to achievement and see what you have access to that might express that . |
28 | I do n't suppose you could spell football could you ? |
29 | You could rent office space and video equipment there . |
30 | He thought that if you could orient molecules in yarn or film — just as Wallace Carothers did when he invented nylon in the same company in the 1930s — why could n't you apply the same technique to plastic bottles to make them stronger ? |