Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] you could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know how you could ever forgive me . |
| 2 | ‘ So do I. I liked the way she muttered so you could hardly hear when she was being funny . |
| 3 | Although IBM began to trim its overhead last year , York 's experience at Chrysler ‘ would show how you could really shut the chequebook , ’ he adds . |
| 4 | You were so stubborn about it , you just kept saying everything was all right , and it was n't , it was getting worse all the time , and I could n't understand why you could n't see it . |
| 5 | Marguerite 's rush of words almost drowned out Alain 's harsh intake of breath , but he said nothing at all as Marguerite went on , ‘ Now I know why you could not stay longer . |
| 6 | If you could have somewhere you could obviously hang them , like leads on for instance . |
| 7 | I would take well you could still take her some . |
| 8 | I 've got nearly over five hundred quid , then the petrol and then food where you could n't get food donated , and new tyres for the bike before I went so you could only get on the road . |
| 9 | Because as soon as it starts to die down you could probably go back on to Betnovate to keep it maintained . |
| 10 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 11 | You did n't you could n't come out any other way , just the one way in and that was the finish of it . |
| 12 | I was confused , not realising why you could n't speak to me to tell me what was wrong . |
| 13 | They were Thin Lizzy 's actual guitar amps from a hire firm , and they just sounded so good because they were just so beaten up you could just feel them when you played . ’ |
| 14 | Correspondingly with over-runs , because editing was frowned upon , if you had things you wanted to cut out you could n't do it so easily . |
| 15 | Chairman , I ca n't imagine how you could possibly contemplate that . |
| 16 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |