Example sentences of "you could [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’ |
| 2 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 3 | ‘ You could meet me for a drink sometimes . ’ |
| 4 | So you could wear them under the heavy o oil skin or whatever else they wore on top , and it looked a very comfortable garment , apart from the waterproof . |
| 5 | Hey , you could tape him in the night so he can believe you next time , that he snores ! |
| 6 | You could chase them around the racetrack . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps you could drop me at the nearest bus stop or railway station , ’ she added . |
| 8 | You could fit it on a bowling green . |
| 9 | Instead of giving your mum chocolates ( or cake as they did in those days ) , you could treat her to a special melon basket , which can be prepared the day before . |
| 10 | If Dad is a war movie buff you could treat him to the classic Bridge Over The River Kwai . |
| 11 | Well , in some countries this might be the only opportunity learners get to hear extensive chunks of the language , so you could treat it as a " language bath " session and concentrate on helping your learners come away with a general idea of the content . |
| 12 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
| 13 | But , without your low-calorie dressing to hand ( you could smuggle it in a hip flask , perhaps ) , order a baked potato in restaurants only if you can resist that terribly high-calorie sour cream or butter . |
| 14 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 15 | . Now you could integrate it as a function of a function . |
| 16 | You could smell it from the far side of the room through its Father Christmas wrapping paper . |
| 17 | Rehearsals , if you could distinguish them with the name . |
| 18 | ‘ So gummy that you could throw it against a wall and it would stick , ’ It was known as ska , blue beat or rocksteady , and collectively as reggae . |
| 19 | I 'm afraid that Mrs has gone off with , ah Mrs I 'll be very grateful if you could bring me in a bowl . |
| 20 | You can then move the data files that you want to keep ( having selected them with Ctrl+click ) onto a disk in drive A. Alternatively you could move them to a different subdirectory on the hard disk . |
| 21 | You could drag them to the pitch but you could n't make them perform . |
| 22 | You could drag him into the den . |
| 23 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 24 | ‘ You could watch them from the window , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I would be grateful if you could inform me of the person in your department who would be dealing with the register of Wildlife Sites . |
| 26 | I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’ |
| 27 | It would clearly be very difficult to compare one disaster to another , in fact I 'm not even sure you could do it from a grammatical point of view , but if you were to point your finger somewhere in the world and say , ‘ We really ought to look at what 's happening here , or what might happen there , ’ could you think of one outstanding example ? |
| 28 | And you could do that in the all the rest area , you could do it in the whole club to be honest . |
| 29 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |
| 30 | You could put it behind , you could feed it through the wall behind to where that |