Example sentences of "[conj] you could [vb infin] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer . |
| 2 | Then came the International Section : an Indian family on the back of a lorry with a stove , the mother cooking real curry that you could smell in the air ; an Irish group , parents with bagpipes and children dressed as leprechauns ; a steel band from Trinidad . |
| 3 | He went adrift by imagining that you could float in water head up and then duck your head under , thus displacing an extra quantity of water , which could be measured . |
| 4 | He 'd never thought that you could shiver in a desert , but it was late afternoon and the sun had fallen behind the hills and a chill wind cut across the graves . |
| 5 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 6 | Make a series of paragraph or section headings that you could use in a one-hour exam answer . |
| 7 | It 's even better money than you could earn in high season , so it is , but of course your father is n't Sir Thomas Bloody Breakspear and as rich as a pig in shit , so you need the money , while his Holiness here does n't . |
| 8 | Although it may be too late to gather any more that season , you would at least have a permanent record so you could return in the following year to collect some more . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've had experience as a shop assistant , so you could work in one of our shops . |
| 10 | The selection can contain more than just the numbers you wish to sum so you could have in your document Apples 20 ; Pears 25 ; Oranges 36 and having marked the passage you would use the command Ctrl-K-M ( Block math ) and see a message : |
| 11 | Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name . |
| 12 | And you could sit in the back . |
| 13 | And you could live in the country on what you 're wasting in rent for this dump ! ’ |
| 14 | For a month everything was beautiful and inspired , and you could believe in the innate and irresistible urge towards freedom and fellow-feeling that would take care of political nastiness , or of the crap , as our eloquent friend might have put it . |
| 15 | From Baghdad , Bernard Shaw , John Holliman and Peter Arnett described the death-dazzled night , and you could hear in their voices the vibrato of fear . |
| 16 | It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord . |
| 17 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 18 | ‘ I just wondered if you could look in the library for me ’ , she explained . |
| 19 | Oh well lead so er , apparently if , if you could get in fine detail enough we 'd have lead on ourselves , this is why the , this carbon dioxide stuff from the erm |
| 20 | It is as if you could read in them simultaneously transcriptions of inducement , threat , coercion , protection , solace , yearning and resistance . |
| 21 | And if you could pop in there , you know what it is I 'm |
| 22 | Wish you were cos you could go in my old man 's place . |
| 23 | The product is white but you could mix in a slight trace of pigment or water colour to obtain a better match with the pan itself . |
| 24 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 25 | ‘ But before you could get in touch Simon and his lies intervened , ’ Ashley reflected . |
| 26 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 27 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 28 | ‘ It was as far as you could go in Moyne . |
| 29 | The ten diagonal chimneys rising from the steep pantiled roof are the finishing touch , making Allerthorpe as grand a farmhouse as you could find in all Yorkshire . |
| 30 | All entries showed imagination and , more to the point , a keen enjoyment in the task of cramming in as many obscure and erudite words as you could find in the dictionary . |