Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they did eventually , they put sort of call boxes occasionally , in different parts of the borough so during the night you could ring up the station . |
| 2 | Then through the window you could see it-smaller than a Concord and almost completely open with its canvas side-curtains rolled up and fastened-just turning out of the yard , and the next moment the jingling , rattling sound was right out front . |
| 3 | I had an English teacher , every time she stood in front of the window you could see — ‘ |
| 4 | Below is an example of the way you could organise your notes as you preview a story . |
| 5 | But the first week of the quarter you could get messages all that week which you did n't have to pay till the end of the quarter . |
| 6 | To help you get out of the red you could call on a qualified chartered accountant for between £50 and £60 an hour . |
| 7 | They were not all scandalous , though ; some were conventional love songs of the sort you could hear at the cinema or on the radio , if you had one . |
| 8 | He hated the smell and the noise of the drill you could hear from the treatment room . |
| 9 | ‘ With the money I 'm prepared to pay you for your half of the house you could buy a more than adequate little base for yourself — and still have change left to indulge in a few luxuries . ’ |
| 10 | It also , in those days was mileage for the tyres was paid on the number of miles run per tyre , so at the end of the month you could record , you knew what tyres were on a certain bus , you knew of how many miles that bus had done , so you recorded that particular tyre on that bus had run so many miles and it was that that we paid for our tyres that way . |
| 11 | Erm the point that both the others raised about my objection with the large document and my objection regarding what you were going to do with the information you could have apacked and come out with a stronger result . |
| 12 | Yeah , eh with the end you could have B equals minus fifteen over here and you would have still got the same answer . |
| 13 | On one occasion the door to his bedroom was left open and if you had passed along the corridor you could have caught a glimpse of the Collector , slumped on his bed , haggard and ginger-whiskered , the very picture of despair . |
| 14 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 15 | From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond . |
| 16 | From the window you could see one thin strip of blue between the houses opposite ; her view of the harbour . |
| 17 | ‘ And from the noose you could tell which man you 'd hanged and which you had not ? ’ |
| 18 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 19 | Her face was cast downwards but even in the half-light you could see that the poor girl looked terrified . |
| 20 | The bulbs were n't just scattered , but were arranged in the correct patterns — so that if you looked up you could see ( if you knew which star was which ) , up there amongst all the dragons , bulls and poisonous scuttlers of the Heavens , right in the centre you could see the constellation which I always thought of as being our special one , a solitary man walking with his faithful dog , the high summer constellation of Orion , the Hunter , stretched and striding above us . |
| 21 | To safeguard their health in the meantime you could give them advice about how to reduce the risks they are taking . |
| 22 | Well it was er it was transparent in the water you could see the fish in the water and and er , you could see the turtles and the |
| 23 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 24 | But should go to another factory and er hold your own in the factory you could expect to get the full money , which I did at twenty one . |
| 25 | You were so successful at it that in the end you could vanish without leaving a soul behind sufficiently concerned about you to kick up a fuss — only a solicitor worried about the legal hang-ups , and especially the money ! |
| 26 | She said , ‘ If you came earlier on in the alphabet you could have stayed there . |
| 27 | At three o'clock in the morning you could look up and their windows were blazing with light . |
| 28 | There was nothing in the world you could have done to save him . ’ |
| 29 | to get to the menu you could work out from the menu |
| 30 | To the west you could see a sprinkling of town lights and , further west , the hills where the coal came from . |