Example sentences of "[conj] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they were raked into Well we just er If they were dry they were raked into big swathes , to be near where you could build the tramp coles But if they were n't you would put them into little coles and the and then they were the little coles was put up t t together to make a bigger one . |
| 2 | But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer . |
| 3 | ‘ Upstairs there would be little cubicles where you could sit with your girl and have a drink . |
| 4 | Like some fantastic prison , where you could drink so deeply and so long that you forgot your bondage . |
| 5 | A handsome yet sylvan prospect where you could promenade to the music of brass bands . |
| 6 | er in terms of equipping yourself for erm er you know being er erm er well better able I suppose to , to work out where you could make er a , a , a , a real contribution you know ? |
| 7 | I could meet you somewhere where you could show me . |
| 8 | but it were so nice , er , there was n't er , er there was n't anywhere where you could go . |
| 9 | ‘ For people like my father the City was a lovely environment where you could meet for a drink , or have lunch and be with friends . |
| 10 | This is probably the first Windows Application that we 've reviewed where you could lock away the manual , a great on-screen help system helps both the novice or experienced user . |
| 11 | Because I was a really shy teenager , and I thought it was a great place to hide ; where you could talk about things and express these feelings that you had , but you could hide a wee bit too . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from the danger , there are all sorts of places in that mausoleum where you could hide a small elephant . ’ |
| 13 | She turned round and stormed out and I followed her as she marched down the street to Mr Kiniver 's ‘ hire shop ’ where you could rent a horse and cart for two hours for one shilling . |
| 14 | 75 V Street was a black door with a small glass panel at head height where you could see your own face reflected . |
| 15 | She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots . |
| 16 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 17 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 18 | Under the sink , behind the cupboards , every single where you could imagine was chock-a-block . |
| 19 | ‘ These are areas where you could say farming was marginal . |
| 20 | There is an excellent restaurant where you could have lunch . ’ |
| 21 | Where you could have more of a character study , rather than just the kind of erm , capping the unconscious , as it were |
| 22 | ‘ There are English holiday areas where you could have marketed your tiles , ’ Vitor said , plainly dubious of her argument . |
| 23 | Read as much as you can , see if there are any other cichlid keepers in your area , or a local aquatic society where you could ask questions and get advice . |
| 24 | To start off Changez 's career in the grocery business , Anwar instructed him to work on the till , where you could get by with only one arm and half a brain . |
| 25 | Just ten or fifteen minutes of it now would see him right , a short trip out through the islets and mudbanks where you could let the boat drift , lean over the stern and watch the inner life of the dirty green water , the shreds of seaweed and small branches and other shapes that sometimes proved to be alive , or focus on the surface , a depthless sheet of scum on which the pearly light shimmered in continual shifting patterns , or even look up to see a huge modern building , several storeys high , going for a stroll along a neighbouring island , the superstructure of a freighter putting out to sea along the deep-water channel … |
| 26 | And if you 're heading anywhere where you could encounter snow and ice , make sure your equipment includes ice axe and crampons , and the knowledge to use them properly . |
| 27 | We wonder whether this has anything to do with an ‘ upgradeable ’ machine DEC seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5 . |
| 28 | These seething emporia of boards and beach-gear were outnumbered only by the healing parlours of various persuasions — ‘ Back and Shoulders ’ , ‘ Healing Hands ’ , ‘ Acupuncture ’ , ‘ MD ’ — where you could put in for repairs . |
| 29 | This can be especially useful if you are walking through an area with plenty of ground cover where you could lose sight of the dog . |
| 30 | You bought it as somewhere where you could keep me , and that 's something quite different . |