Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] you could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you succeed in finding another job , or already have one lined up at the time that you go , it may not be worth suing your employer because the losses for which you could claim reimbursement may be minimal . |
| 2 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
| 3 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 4 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 5 | and erm like I said up to about , up to about two years ago you could claim housing benefit with which you could pay your rent , and that was a great help to students you know , but now that 's been stopped , but you do n't get anything like that , so you 've got thirty five pound a week to pay for food , rent , community charge , everything |
| 6 | Explanation : You should write down specifically the areas in which you could see improvements ( or deterioration ) . |
| 7 | And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South . |
| 8 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 9 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 10 | These were not gods with whom you could speak . |
| 11 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 12 | Well , my basic kit of hand tools consists of 12 items with which you could tackle any common gardening job . |
| 13 | it may turn out that it has n't failed miserably but , you know , there may be various ways in which you could improve it which you might , you know , if you 're lucky he might have sort of written on , round the sides and round the edges and erm that 's you know kind of one of the things that you can build on erm you know a lot of |
| 14 | 2 Think of ways in which you could change it to make it really different : funnier more exciting or dramatic stranger 3 Think the story through in your head . |
| 15 | And now we 're asking you to focus in on ways in which you could live the prayer of Saint Francis . |
| 16 | But it is just to try and ask you to think ways in which you could help in this particular way in whichever way there is . |
| 17 | There were a series of small booths in which you could crouch to eat . |
| 18 | She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room . |
| 19 | This figure does not , of course , take account of what you could earn on or do with your money if it was available to you . |
| 20 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 21 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 22 | Henry wondered where the brake cable was , what it looked like , whether it was the kind of thing to which you could take a saw . |
| 23 | The 4th , 10th , 14th and 27th are all times when you may feel the cosmos has it in for you although these are the very points at which you could break the chains that have held you back for so long . |
| 24 | Material not designed for the classroom may well be too long for a normal lesson period , so you will want to note points at which you could come in and out of the programme . |
| 25 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 26 | On the opposite page we 've put together three outfits from the Freemans catalogue spring/summer collection — just to give you an idea of what you could win . |
| 27 | This is a lively , swinging hotel with everything you could need for a holiday to remember . |
| 28 | As well as investigating lists and potential backers , consider if there are way in which you could instigate a residency which would match your particular skills and expectations to the benefits , tangible or otherwise , for a particular firm or organisation . |
| 29 | Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell . |
| 30 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |