Example sentences of "you could [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | You could keep it from the women , the hidden story of the cells and the cemeteries , of the club and the castor oil bottle . |
| 32 | When he was n't teaching , Malik was usually on the phone , and you could hear him through the wall . |
| 33 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 34 | You could find yourself in the ludicrous situation where you have to take them out of the country for half-an-hour and take them back in again . |
| 35 | You could find someone outside the family to help you cope , perhaps by suggesting ways to relax or manage stress , or by sorting out practical problems . |
| 36 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |
| 37 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 38 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 39 | You could see it in the way he performed against Pakistan . ’ |
| 40 | I mean I , my sister used to have one and she said you could take it on the motorway and it 'll just keep up a , a very good speed still with a noisy engines and then it just kept going and going and going . |
| 41 | You could take it to the kitchen and put it under the grill of the electric cooker in order to get it hot , without knowing why it should be hot . |
| 42 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 43 | Perhaps if you wish to add questions , it might be helpful if you could circulate them amongst the 4 of us before the 26th . |
| 44 | You could kick him and hurt him , you could hit him on the face and on the eyes so that he could n't see , but he 'd still manage to torment you . |
| 45 | And on the next occasion you could try something along the lines of : |
| 46 | You could put them in the fridge , but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate ! |
| 47 | You could put them in the |
| 48 | You could put them in the sitting room . |
| 49 | I mean if if a woman undresses okay let's take a scenario okay Simon maybe er you know you could put yourself in the same situation |
| 50 | you could put one over the other . |
| 51 | If you take erm Depends on the shape of them , but very often if you put a piece of newspaper round and then face the corner of one into the into you could put one into the bottom of the next and do it in a square . |
| 52 | ‘ You could put it to the test in a very few minutes , my lord . ’ |
| 53 | I 've had a marvellous clear out — got every single shirt on to the line — and when you take that off you could put it in the bucket so I can get it out tomorrow . ’ |
| 54 | You could put it in the Bulletin , how about the Bulletin , in the City Secretary 's Bulletin . |
| 55 | Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well . |