Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] you could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought for a minute you could have been Billy sitting there , ’ she said as she put the tea down on the desk . |
| 2 | And for a penny you could have a thick slice of bread , about one and a half inches , loaded with dripping , so that was your meal at lunchtime , before you nipped back to do other jobs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yeah , eh with the end you could have B equals minus fifteen over here and you would have still got the same answer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ If you came earlier on in the alphabet you could have stayed there . |
| 8 | There was nothing in the world you could have done to save him . ’ |
| 9 | Oh yes we use cos when you 're dredging , you see when the eels came in the mud , eels always go in the mud in the winter time , you do n't , many eels swirl out , they go in the mud and when you 're dredging and they 're going into the hopper , cos they used to get stunned and they used to swim round right down the top of the water and they used to come up to the side , and if they come up to the side you could have your knife and just come here , cos they were stunned , pick 'em out . |
| 10 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |