Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] you could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It would help my concentration if you could stop tapping that blasted pencil . ’ |
| 5 | Well in those days beastlings was a lux it was n't a luxury because you could get it for nothing . |
| 6 | We 'd be in the rattle before you could say wet Nelly ! ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Driving your car when you could have walked is like cheating at cards — you do it because you can get away with it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You play against the computer which operates at a chosen skill level so you could have a chance of winning . |
| 15 | As soon as you got out of sight , you altered direction and did a wide loop so you could sneak up behind us . ’ |
| 16 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 17 | It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord . |
| 18 | I 'd be a Special Constable before you could say Fuzz . |
| 19 | Thank God I love him , or I 'd be out of this house and home before you could say ‘ knife ’ . |
| 20 | At the prices that were being charged would you go to Slaley Hall when you could go to Portugal ? ’ |
| 21 | As much a sport as you could call erm |
| 22 | Turn left and come to the Wasserkirche , the Water Church , as lovely a piece of late Gothic architecture as you could wish to see . |
| 23 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |
| 24 | You asked me to send a reminder so you could arrange for the stone cross to be cleaned before Remembrance Sunday in November . |
| 25 | There are several stylish set-pieces and more imaginative slang than you could shake a cheer-leaders ass at . |
| 26 | You wanted me on a string so you could play cat to my mouse … |
| 27 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ Games teachers would say , ‘ There 's a meeting at such and such a place on Wednesday afternoon ; would you ask your teacher if you could miss your lessons ? ’ |
| 30 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |