Example sentences of "[pron] could use [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 2 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 3 | I could use another cup of coffee . ’ |
| 4 | At that point , it was accepted that I could use this material as a contribution to a Ph.D . |
| 5 | Sure , I could use any investment that 's floating around . |
| 6 | God , I could use some dope ; I need to mellow out , I need to calm down . |
| 7 | After supporting them all day I could use some support myself . ’ |
| 8 | Margaret Thatcher was remarkable , of course , for being the first woman Prime Minister , and she could use this factor to persuade or beguile male colleagues on occasion . |
| 9 | And she could use these groups to provide some forms of education for parenthood . |
| 10 | Now if I were Alwyn I would not be too proud of winning a competition to see who could use more cliches than anyone else . |
| 11 | Men who could use these things comfortably would have to be three metres tall , and when they came I really did n't want to be there . |
| 12 | You could use galvanised steel tubing ( try a scrap merchant ) for the uprights , and metal tubing or galvanised wire across the top . |
| 13 | You can fit drawer chests inside the units for easier storage of items like underwear and socks , or you could use sliding baskets in a rack for the same purpose . |
| 14 | yeah you could use that chrome railing elsewhere , we could |
| 15 | You could use floppy disks , but a current maximum of 1.44Mb per disk means an awful lot of disk shuffling . |
| 16 | You could use ordinary pencil , are you alright Bruce ? |
| 17 | You could use different shades of the same colour , rather than lots of different colours . |
| 18 | So you could use different characters of the file name to mean different things . |
| 19 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 20 | We used the fruit cake from page 38 and two from Cook 's Directory on page 136 , but you could use ready-made cakes instead . |
| 21 | In the event you lack this parental model , perhaps you could use another marriage relationship which influenced you — a relative or close family relationship . |
| 22 | On a text spreadsheet though , you ca n't draw things , but er , you could use some letters positioned roughly where the different parts of the spreadsheet are . |
| 23 | I should think you could use some money just now . |
| 24 | Thought you could use some help . ’ |
| 25 | You could use this technique at the start and at the end of every massage if you wish and if it feels right for you . |
| 26 | Video Plan 4 on page 42 shows how you could use this technique with a cartoon . |
| 27 | You could use this function to convert ASCII codes to some other coding scheme . |
| 28 | You could use this idea for any season of the year , either copying a poem you know or making up your own : a poem written by a friend or loved one can be a much treasured gift . |
| 29 | Many of you have already sent in details about individual classes but it would be helpful if you could use this form now . |
| 30 | Please return to if you could use this form now . |