Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] you could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was a Stradivarius among performers ; a perfect instrument on which you could play anything . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | yeah , basically , I mean you could go to poly with what you could get , yeah |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This is a lively , swinging hotel with everything you could need for a holiday to remember . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Just as we were supposed to accept their stories about how this was the only country in which you could ski in the mountains in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon . |
| 16 | If the existing carpet is in reasonable condition but you 're sick to death of it you could add rugs to cheer it up . |
| 17 | He tried , without much success , to look like a man who had a soul into which you could look . |