Example sentences of "you could say [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 2 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 3 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 4 | But it truly is , Fenella. if the Robemaker is there , or even if one of his horrid spells — what they call Sentry Spells — is lurking , we 'd be taken up and captured before you could say Gruagach . |
| 5 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 6 | Cast them upon their own resources , and they 'd be on Valium three times a day before you could say Hoffmann-La Roche . |
| 7 | Disobey me in this and I shall pack you off to Framlingham and send Joan elsewhere — more quickly than you could say wedding-bells ! ’ |
| 8 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 9 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 10 | I suppose you could say David had it so often that it be nice for him to get it . |
| 11 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 12 | But you could say AA or better . |
| 13 | No housekeeper could have resisted such an impassioned deputation : Violet was duly taken on and had donned her skivvy 's apron before you could say Octavia Hill . |
| 14 | Which was a pretty passive thing to do , in some ways , erm , and similarly , you could say Woodrow Wilson ended up crucified by the , by the allies . |
| 15 | During the nineteenth century it was de rigueur to think that the Universe was filled with a sort of stuff called the luminiferous aether : disagree with that notion and you could say farewell to your hopes of a professorship . |