Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] you could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cast your vote or you could win cash in our £40,000 prize list |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 6 | you can not recover loss that you could have avoided suffering by taking reasonable steps ; |
| 7 | House music was taking over the galaxy , and this was an indication that you could do whatever the hell you liked with the genre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No velvet dress , — no lovely soft crushed velvet that you could stroke , with its beautiful lacy trim . |
| 10 | It was er up to the standard of hygiene that you could get . |
| 11 | If you were , it 's no big deal and you could have a perfectly happy life with the right partner . |
| 12 | Lose your concentration and you could lose your footing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ It would help my concentration if you could stop tapping that blasted pencil . ’ |
| 16 | And on that there was a typewriter and you could send signal messages , and everything . |
| 17 | There was a high hedge of hazel on either side and you could see clusters of ripe brown nuts in their green jackets . |
| 18 | Well in those days beastlings was a lux it was n't a luxury because you could get it for nothing . |
| 19 | We 'd be in the rattle before you could say wet Nelly ! ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Packaging and handling charges do not come cheap , so what 's the point of paying for ten plastic packets along with the extra labour when you could buy one box containing 100 hooks and save up to 33 per cent ? |
| 22 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 23 | Its engine was American , its assembly was completed in America , it would n't have happened without Shelby 's American dream , but underneath it all the Shelby AC Cobra was a British a sports car as you could wish to see . |
| 24 | It was as green a light as you could get for the never-ending demands for U-turns from Mr Gould , followed by several Shadow Cabinet colleagues . |
| 25 | I know you could come up with something — your work was always the best , and I 've every faith that you could do a good job . ’ |
| 26 | Maybe give you a wee lesson so it 'll save me going on a course so you could bring in all could n't you ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it . |
| 29 | They were very attractive and they did have the advantage that you could take them down and plunge the whole thing in water and wash it and er |
| 30 | An example of a chart that you could construct on a card , or in your diary is shown opposite . |