Example sentences of "[verb] you could [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pity you could n't follow them . ’ |
| 2 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
| 3 | Say you could n't get through to your mother . |
| 4 | If people did n't cooperate you could n't lead them so easily . ’ |
| 5 | Shame you could n't have it for your birthday . |
| 6 | for the easy job , you set your stall out , you make a jig to sort it all out , you can slide it in , zip , zip , zip , done you could probably say what , three an hour out , if you 're lucky , two and a half , three an hour |
| 7 | There were days when you just could n't talk to him , when he stared at you as if what you said made no sense , and then gave you answers you could n't understand . |
| 8 | These puppies are thriving in the warm environment , their owner says you could n't get a better start for young bird dogs . |
| 9 | and I told you could always pop in . |
| 10 | But once I decide that 's settled I 'd notice it cause you could n't seem to get down . |
| 11 | Well , they 've had , they 've only had you must of been better or Miss Johnson would of said you could n't go to the public |
| 12 | Ah ! rang , you should have said you could n't pick me up cos you 'd been to the pub . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't implying you could n't do it yourself , ’ he added hastily , seeing her expression . |
| 15 | What I suggest is you realised you could n't have failed to realise she was there , but you were in too much of a hurry to get the bed up and check was n't under there . |
| 16 | Oh , I do n't think you could clearly dichotomize and say it was one thing or the other . |
| 17 | I see wi with the additional five hundred last year , I should think you could n't do less than that , could you ? |
| 18 | ‘ Do you think you could also play by your own rules and drop the formality ? |
| 19 | Do you think you could just open the door for me please ! |
| 20 | Do you think you could just sweep that up |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think you could honestly say it was going well just now , but it will do soon and that 's all that matters . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly curb your dislike and mistrust of me for that one evening ? |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think you could possibly look in on me in about fifteen minutes ? |
| 24 | Do you think you could possibly find me a small drink ? " |
| 25 | I do n't think you could ever hurt me , love ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think you could ever call Ken a friend . |
| 27 | You 'd have to get rid of a lot of your assumptions before you could fully appreciate why I could n't live with a man I do n't love , or I do n't think you could ever understand why I ca n't accept to be maintained , to put myself at the disposal of another , be in another 's company twenty-four hours a day , share another 's pleasures and pains — and so on . ’ |
| 28 | well I know what 's on there , it wo n't be the same , its not , it wo n't be the same songs or items , will it ? , they do n't repeat their repertoire their , there not different items I mean if we did and it was a repeat you could always wipe it out , put something on top , could n't you ? |
| 29 | It 's obviously a show , and I mean you could well imagine that in the old days you need horses were really used to do a full day 's work , they did n't have quite such er nice clean tack a as these ones . |
| 30 | That 's , that 's Now when you 've got an A squared minus B squared , you can factorize that I mean you could just do that on your calculator , and do it in one go , but it 's quite easy to do it as three point O one . |