Example sentences of "you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I have resolved in my heart to hear your complaints two days in the week , on the Monday and the Thursday ; but if causes should arise which require haste , come to me when ye will and I will give judgment , for I do not retire with women to sing and to drink , as your Lords have done , so that ye could obtain no justice , but will myself see to these things , and watch over ye as friend over his friend , and kinsman over his kinsman . |
| 2 | ‘ Ye could gie me a wee bit . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ye could sell it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ye could fly ye on a kite . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ye could go out for yer Halloween wie a snout like yon . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 8 | ‘ A fucking lion tamer , ’ he said , looking at Paddy , ‘ ye could n't tame a pussy cat . ’ |
| 9 | Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’ |
| 10 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 11 | ’ Oh , ye could come in wi' me , ’ said one of them . |
| 12 | ’ I wis jist mebbe wonderin' if ye could pit in a word fir me ? ’ |
| 13 | You could covenant all your taxable income if you wished — remember though that a part of your total income will not be subject to tax , because of the various tax allowances you enjoy ( personal allowances , mortgage interest relief , etc . ) |
| 14 | Alternatively , you could use the GIFT AID scheme ( see separate leaflet ) . |
| 15 | Either you should ask your spouse to enter into the covenant or you could enter into a Joint Deed of Covenant signed by both you and your spouse . |
| 16 | If you wish to give small amounts regularly , e.g. monthly , you could accumulate the money in a separate account and then convert this to a gift to ACET every time the amount reaches £600 . |
| 17 | Also , by making a proper Will you could well save your dependants from paying an unnecessary amount of inheritance tax ( death duties ) . |
| 18 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 19 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 20 | She 'd say , moreover , that you could always get out of a boat and go ashore , but from that height you could only crash . |
| 21 | Well , not up anything you could call a ’ |
| 22 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 23 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 24 | William Congreve 's Love for Love and The Way of the World are highly decorated in language , and sharp in wit ; to compare with these , you could look at William Wycherley 's more ‘ basic ’ comedy , The Country Wife . |
| 25 | Of the British playwrights , Pinter is often thought to be on the edges of ‘ absurdism ’ and you could also read N.F. Simpson 's One Way Pendulum and Cresta Run . |
| 26 | It 's pretty lightweight , most of it and what is n't lightweight is salacious , so I would n't think you 'd find much to stimulate you there , but you could try . |
| 27 | You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk . |
| 28 | Perhaps you could have two pieces of broken gramophone record with you as a prop to start the extract . |
| 29 | Armistice Day is still only celebrated in Southern Ireland by protestants : as late as the early 1970s , you could still tell a protestant by his poppy on 11 November . |
| 30 | You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained . |