Example sentences of "you could [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |
| 2 | You could also use a filter starter containing a bacteria culture to speed the establishment of a sound colony of bacteria in your chosen filter ( PFK April ) . |
| 3 | You could also try a home waxing kit like the One Touch Roll-On Waxer , £17.95 , where the wax is heated and then rolled on . |
| 4 | You could also buy a carpet treated with Scotchgard . |
| 5 | If you could also supply a photo or two of you in your trunks on the beach , I would be even more grateful ! |
| 6 | Of course to avoid digging latrines , you could also stick a candle in whatever drips out of your bottom . |
| 7 | You could even cover a cone with macramé for a really exciting special flower holder . |
| 8 | You could even run a contrast border of webbing around the walls just under the ceiling , and around doors , windows and skirting board as well if you like . |
| 9 | A pond does n't have to be large to be effective — if it 's big enough to install a small submersible pump you could even have a fountain . |
| 10 | If your camcorder has a titling facility , you could even superimpose a title over this shot . |
| 11 | You could even use a polaroid camera , show them the photo , ask them to recreate that moment . |
| 12 | Most of the time you could just ignore a lot of the stuff you did n't know ; it 'd come in time , you 'd be told when you needed to know … |
| 13 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 14 | You could either buy a lot of 10V , 5 per cent Zeners and sort out one with the right voltage ( up to 10.5V is possible at 5 per cent tolerance ) , or you could use a 9.1V Zener in series with two high-current silicon rectifiers , which will drop about 0.5V each . |
| 15 | If restretching is too daunting , you could either use a frame with sufficient rebate to hide the discrepancy or have a frame made which fits the canvas . |
| 16 | You could either ask a gardening friend if they could give you one or you could try and take one yourself . |
| 17 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 18 | If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you . |
| 19 | And you could easily make a mistake with the work , you get all worked up . |
| 20 | You could easily run a house like this . ’ |
| 21 | But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum . |
| 22 | You could then attach a brushtype draught seal to the door itself , fixed with self-tapping screws or ‘ pop ’ rivets . |
| 23 | Over a period of time , it 's the meetings to begin with , but if you could then reach a stage where she could sort most problems out herself and only came to you when necessary . |
| 24 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 25 | You could never grow a carnation which had all the colours of the Union Flag , but it is quite easy to make one using food dyes . |
| 26 | I mean you could never load er , you could never load a hopper down to its plimsoll mark with peat , that was so light and cos you could n't put any more in so you used to have to take it to sea perhaps we we well you would call it half loaded . |
| 27 | It was a cake you never got in England , because there the milk did not have to be boiled and so you could never collect a bowlful of creamy skin from successive goes . |
| 28 | So I 'm wondering if you could possibly lend a hand . ’ |
| 29 | If you press even one or two types of flower you could possibly decorate a photograph of your holiday with a pressed flower mount ( see pp. 136–7 ) . |
| 30 | It has to be said that this is a massive walk , particularly for you if you do n't know Ted , and you could certainly fill a day with only these two peaks . |