Example sentences of "[coord] you could say " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 2 | Or you could say erm that if communism can be equated with secret police and the Gulag Archipelago |
| 3 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 4 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 5 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |
| 6 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 7 | And you could say I get about a lot without meeting anybody . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he 's done us proud and you could say he 's an improving nine-year-old and there are n't many of those about . |
| 10 | ‘ When Kimberley divorced her husband and made off wi ’ t' other , Lorraine and she fell out and you could say I was fumin' as well . |
| 11 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 12 | And you could say , look what we 've done with . |
| 13 | Yeah yeah erm you could write just outside it here like save and you could say that you save forty pence . |
| 14 | And you could say , . |
| 15 | But you could say that I have never really stopped missing Mother . |
| 16 | But you could say AA or better . |
| 17 | Afshar suggested , " Your Majesty , time will tell , but you could say to him " If you try to sit on two stills , you will fall between . " " |
| 18 | But you could say that , whereas at the minute , because people are frightened the don do n't go out and do it , they now you know , will go out and do it . |
| 19 | But you could say , the measure would be , have they gone away and done it ? |
| 20 | But you could say I loved him . |