Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] you could " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tourist ’ was about the worst term of abuse you could use . |
| 2 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 3 | I give the kid the kind of wink you could make a movie out of . |
| 4 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 5 | Oh and if you 're paying that kind of money you could afford a mortgage could n't you ? |
| 6 | He was the kind of manager you could approach without hesitation and he had a sharp sense of humour . |
| 7 | But you 'd never notice it — not with the kind of acceleration you could manage . |
| 8 | In other words , I mean that was a basic kind of training you could get as a mechanical engineer . |
| 9 | There I had the idea of the kind of sound you could never have in the concert-hall , a sound that exists only in the imagination and in the new kind of acoustic reality we were able to create through the recording itself . |
| 10 | The menu was certainly comprehensive offering every kind of burger you could wish for an pages and pages of Mexican and Cajun dishes . |
| 11 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 12 | It seemed to me it were the type of place you could sit and do your knitting . |
| 13 | Giles Hawick was not the sort of man you could flatten easily , and if you managed it , he would not pop up , bright , smiling and bearing no grudge , to face you the next ti me . |
| 14 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 15 | All that was changing when Diane Keaton appeared in Annie Hall , looking no more than passably pleasant and sporting the sort of garb you could find in any Oxfam shop . |
| 16 | The sort of voice you could just nod off to . |
| 17 | The sort of secretary you could n't get hold of at Harris , Harris and Overdene . |
| 18 | It could be dangerous because if you 're sucking water into acid you could have problems . |
| 19 | By covering the pot during the day and by placing it uncovered beneath an electric lamp at night you could try to reverse their pattern of behaviour . |
| 20 | The most complete Collection of rock'n'roll you could ever wish to own yours on four double-length cassettes or eight LPs . |
| 21 | Then allocate ‘ free periods ’ when meals can be eaten exactly as you wish , for example over Christmas you could have one ‘ free ’ meal each day for three or four days . |
| 22 | As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this . |
| 23 | So , that now I am releasing the amount of memory you could actually use . |
| 24 | Yeah , what , no , tell us , what 's the maximum amount of timber you could theoretically give us on a good day . |
| 25 | And then you can do it without Fred and , really , with Fred is , is at the end of day you could pro proof pay load could go back to yourself and I , I E and ourselves , but by having him that other cut you 're gon na be saying well it 's all a bit more than your share . |
| 26 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 27 | Neighbour Peter Bainbridge said last night : ‘ They were the last couple on earth you could imagine this happening to . |
| 28 | we used to have , I used to make big pan of broth you could get gorgeous bacon bones with plenty bacon on in the Co-op in those days , it were wi it was when they , they did all the boning in the shops and you could go , get good meaty bones and I used |
| 29 | As a learner from experience you could decide to view it as a learning opportunity and start to experiment with different ways of running the meeting . |