Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're right Eileen it , you could have really bad luck and have all four children with P K U or you could have really good luck and none of them have P K U , or you could have half and half , that 's just an example , with each successive pregnancy you stand a one in four chance , those are all the possibilities , but like throwing the dice it comes up at random . |
| 2 | But well it 's one way to do it you can use a calculator or you could say what would , could you work out a tenth of three sixty ? |
| 3 | When an English-speaker went into the foyer of the regiment , a NAAFI-style canteen where you could buy beer , cigarettes , sweets and memorabilia , he would head over to the table where the Mafia was sitting . |
| 4 | Cast your vote or you could win cash in our £40,000 prize list |
| 5 | As another example , Athletics Weekly carried an article with lurid photographs about one of their reporters who had visited a gymnasium where you could obtain drugs , especially steroids . |
| 6 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 7 | you can not recover loss that you could have avoided suffering by taking reasonable steps ; |
| 8 | Straw boater and a pony-tail , that hideous school uniform hitched up around your thighs so you could show off your legs — God knows why you wanted to when they were covered in hockey bruises , clunky leather lace-ups and ankle socks covered in red dust ! ’ |
| 9 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
| 10 | I could d I could do a complete letterhead and just that just that logo as an E P S F that you could stick into WordPerfect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture . |
| 13 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 14 | No velvet dress , — no lovely soft crushed velvet that you could stroke , with its beautiful lacy trim . |
| 15 | It was er up to the standard of hygiene that you could get . |
| 16 | If you were , it 's no big deal and you could have a perfectly happy life with the right partner . |
| 17 | But in theory you could do posters here at Mansfield and you could send out , we could print them in colour for you |
| 18 | Share your gardening tips with other readers and you could win the holiday of a lifetime |
| 19 | Lose your concentration and you could lose your footing . |
| 20 | You can get help from your GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 21 | You can get help from you GP or from your local Social Services Department and you could contact a local rape crisis centre or women 's refuge . |
| 22 | ‘ It would help my concentration if you could stop tapping that blasted pencil . ’ |
| 23 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |
| 24 | And what happened in eighty three and eighty seven of course was that the local elections take place the Conservative party managers analyzed the results , fed them through the computers and you could come up with the fact that you would , looked like you were set to win a general election . |
| 25 | And on that there was a typewriter and you could send signal messages , and everything . |
| 26 | There was a high hedge of hazel on either side and you could see clusters of ripe brown nuts in their green jackets . |
| 27 | If your footwear is uncomfortable you will not only end up with sore feet or blisters but you could become a danger to yourself or , worse , still , to others who might have to come and rescue you . |
| 28 | Well in those days beastlings was a lux it was n't a luxury because you could get it for nothing . |
| 29 | We 'd be in the rattle before you could say wet Nelly ! ’ |
| 30 | The jack plug was soldered on — which meant you could n't pull the lead out , you had to wrap the plug and lead around the neck before you could put it away . |