Example sentences of "[pron] you could do " in BNC.

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1 I 'm someone you could do wonderful world-changing things with .
2 And one looks at the two most likely existing settlements on which you could do that to are , of course , Easingwold , to the Nor to the Northwest , and Tadcaster to the South .
3 If your number was up there was absolutely nothing you could do about it .
4 You could choose to move on different paths through space-time , but nothing you could do would modify the background of space and time .
5 I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it .
6 I was in the toilet , giving him a shot , and I come back in and he just stuck in the syringe , there was nothing you could do .
7 Okay and the question is now you you could do it just by working it out with the formula .
8 Mind you you could do a lot with that sixpence .
9 And probably a book or a crossword puzzle or something you could do when you were down there , you know .
10 After a while Owen said : ‘ There 's something you could do to help . ’
11 ‘ Well , ’ she said at last with only a faint betraying tremor in her voice , ‘ if you really are dead set on staying to help , there is something you could do . ’
12 Consider if you are fit and healthy enough to endure this or is there something you could do to improve the situation .
13 If you feel this is something you could do , please contact Joan immediately .
14 If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules .
15 It was a tremendously interesting job but clearly not one you could do for very long . ’
16 That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was .
17 There comes a moment when you know you have done what you could do with something and everything else would be fiddling .
18 Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece .
19 ‘ Tell you what though , mate , ’ and he was overtaken by another surge of enthusiasm , ‘ if you 're interested , what you could do is take a trip to Explorers Inn in the Tambopata Reserve , see the rainforest there … ’
20 So we used to go up there and get our .008″ banjo strings and put them on the top and it really transformed what you could do . ’
21 You know what you could do with ?
22 Adam loved words , was fascinated by them , their meanings and what you could do with them , with anagrams and palindromes and rhetorical terms and etymology .
23 Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ?
24 But think what you could do with an imminent !
25 She shut her bedroom door , knowing fate had decreed that the book she was reading should be resting in the sitting-room , leaving her with nothing to do but make her bed , sit on it , lie on it , unmake it , jump on it , push it round the floor — there were limits to what you could do with a bed , and it was the only piece of furniture in the room .
26 Till you had shown the world what you could do
27 Well what what you could do is put in brackets somewhere a list of accents you can think of so that if people really do n't know what to do .
28 if someone 's giving you a lift , what you could do is get them to drive straight down , drop you off , and then they can go and park .
29 She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me .
30 ‘ How right I was , ’ she whispered , ‘ to be afraid of what you could do to me . ’
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