Example sentences of "[noun] you could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 2 | When she crossed her legs you could almost see her stocking-tops . |
| 3 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 4 | If you shaded your eyes you could just make it out : a gleaming band of silver right across the horizon . |
| 5 | Jigsaws you could n't do or dull stamps |
| 6 | They were the crowd whose heads you could not see over . |
| 7 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 8 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 9 | ‘ In other words you could n't bear the thought that there might just be one female in a hundred-mile radius who did n't fall apart at the seams every time you deigned to smile in her direction , ’ she spat back . |
| 10 | Nirvana have made heavy metal intelligent and vital — not words you could ever apply to Marky Mark , a 21-year-old Calvin Klein underwear model , former New Kid On The Block and white boy posing as black rapper . |
| 11 | And once you 've finished that you 'll be taken by special puke resistant ambulance to double triple quadruple maths with all that custard you could n't eat being forced into you on a drip feed ! |
| 12 | If you did n't join one of these organizations you could n't go to school . |
| 13 | Any instrument you could ever need to make a house record is here inside the computer — yours at the touch of a button . |
| 14 | He could see it ahead of him , like a rock you could not miss . |
| 15 | The helmets and the shields were the same : they had designs you could hardly forget if you wanted to . |
| 16 | the simplest test you could ever do she failed ! |
| 17 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 18 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 19 | No wonder you could n't hear . |
| 20 | " No wonder you could n't run . |
| 21 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a pity you could n't persuade your family to be here today . ’ |
| 23 | Then I said to them , " Its a pity you could n't find me foster parents " , and the social worker said , " What a brilliant idea ! " |
| 24 | What a pity you could n't have talked to me four years ago , instead of simply walking out . ’ |
| 25 | He ran long fingers through his straight dark hair while exclaiming impatiently , ‘ It 's a pity you could n't have thought to ask about days off . |
| 26 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 27 | This would leave the bassist free to add little chordal colourings on the G and D. You could also use them for striking solo intro riffs , something they excel at , while adding a touch of stereo chorus provides an even sweeter sound . |
| 28 | T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble . |
| 29 | From the fairway you could n't stop the ball where the flag had been positioned . |
| 30 | This can make those rare beings quite boring — an accusation you could never level at Jack . |