Example sentences of "you could get " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your IUD is removed between periods , you could get pregnant . |
| 2 | Work out the maximum benefit you could get . |
| 3 | If your income is more than your ‘ applicable amount ’ the maximum benefit you could get is reduced by 15% ( 15p in every £1 ) of the difference between the applicable amount and the income . |
| 4 | I did n't know you could get it insured . |
| 5 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 6 | You could get out more , it would be good for you , darling . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are these the best lamb chops you could get ? |
| 8 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 9 | Fancy him thinking you could get rabbits with that . |
| 10 | It was rough , but you could get through easy enough before the new bracken grew . |
| 11 | Uncle Walter had told him you could get to Australia by digging . |
| 12 | You could get arrested for cruelty . ’ |
| 13 | — You could get away from it all , out there . |
| 14 | You could get drunk on the ozone . |
| 15 | You could get seasick at the top watching the clouds scudding across a full moon in a vast ocean of space . |
| 16 | Perhaps , though , you could get a message to Cabochon for me . ’ |
| 17 | You could get a job auditing the use of these funds in southern Italy , but I think you would be safer and richer as the man who gives them out . |
| 18 | It was all you could get , at Conservative Research Department . |
| 19 | You could get a meal for five francs at Rosalie 's little place , and Modi often bartered a meal for drawings which she believed were worthless . |
| 20 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 21 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 22 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 23 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 24 | ‘ That was in the days when they were laying tracks on the ice ; in the days , too , when you could get married out there . ’ |
| 25 | Mutual cooperation with the particular enemy soldiers facing you across no-man's-land most definitely does affect your own fate , and is greatly preferable to mutual defection , even though you might , for patriotic or disciplinary reasons , marginally prefer to defect ( DC ) if you could get away with it . |
| 26 | You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards . |
| 27 | It does n't matter what you think , it 's what people round here think and I can tell you now that you could get yourself into serious trouble . ’ |
| 28 | He did n't know you had to change $60 into cordobas at the official rate before you could get into the country . |
| 29 | It must be the nearest thing you could get to Lord Ismay … it was just the tip how to run it , how to manage it from the Government point of view . |
| 30 | I spotted unexpected wigs and learned — with surrealistic horror — that you could get a wig on the National Health . |