Example sentences of "you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looks like ye could blow him away tae , ’ Pol said . |
| 2 | ‘ Ye could go out for yer Halloween wie a snout like yon . ’ |
| 3 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Ye could gie me a wee bit . ’ |
| 7 | ’ I wis jist mebbe wonderin' if ye could pit in a word fir me ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Ye could fly ye on a kite . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was told , ’ Rab said , Winnie 's stinging remark , and it had stung him , ‘ that ye could fly me on a kite . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Ye could sell it . ’ |
| 11 | ’ Oh , ye could come in wi' me , ’ said one of them . |
| 12 | Erm , you could say worse , I suppose you could cheat , but erm , |
| 13 | ‘ You could start a trend , dear , ’ said Francis . |
| 14 | You could start your own playgroup so if you want any help or advice contact the Pre-School Playgroup Association ( address opposite ) . |
| 15 | You may well be wearing 30 's clothes and I suppose you could start wandering around feeling like Gatsby , but for a man who is a very fine actor and mime artiste , and who learned from Lindsay Kemp way before I met him everything about it being a show off stage and on , I do n't really think there 's too much relevance . ’ |
| 16 | You could start making your own dreams come true . |
| 17 | Now you not only had the wine but also found that the bees had multiplied , so that you could start off three or four jars . |
| 18 | Although many Homes may not give you an induction pack , you could start to make up one of your own . |
| 19 | You could start from today . |
| 20 | ‘ If there is n't , you could start one . ’ |
| 21 | You could start by adapting and changing the ones shown here . |
| 22 | You could start your holiday with a one hour round-trip by boat . |
| 23 | Right next part of section one , did you collect the information by the deadline which means were you able to complete it in your form time with your form tutor and bring it to the lesson so that you could start on the s on the graph . |
| 24 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 25 | For example , when the subject of your speech is a soldier you could start , ‘ According to the British Grenadiers , Some talk of Alexander , and some of Hercules , and others of Lysander and such great names as these . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could start to tell me the truth , ’ she said finally . |
| 27 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 28 | ‘ You said yesterday that you wanted a divorce , so that you could start a new life . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You could start by furnishing it , ’ he said drily . |
| 30 | You could start another , different , private day all over again when normal work was done . |