Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The menu is varied and if you choose to do so , you could make a full meal of it — for instance you could choose calamari , followed by Scottish salmon , followed by delicious fudge brownies . |
| 2 | For instance you could learn to be a , a motor driver , you could learned to be an electrician , you could learn to be an engineer , you could learn to be anything . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll agree that on the For side you could put the things you listed the other day , that he has all the skills to set the trap and the perfect place to do it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course you could stay in an hotel ! |
| 6 | The full amount of your initial investment plus bonuses is guaranteed to be returned to you on completion of the five year term — and of course you could see a healthy return on your investment due to stock market growth during this time . |
| 7 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
| 8 | Of course you could say that we do not need all the animals anyway , but at the moment we have got them , so there is a conflict here . |
| 9 | Huh , er just , please help us , you know we get on much better , of course you can give an explanation , all Mr wants , you requested is said whether you did raise it , of course you could say , we did n't , I did n't because erm of so and so , because there was n't an opportunity or whatever , but do tell us whether yes or no whether you raised it surely that 's possible Mr is n't it ? , is n't it ? , am I trying to assist you , during my people are just not answering the questions , put it again in blunt form Mr would you please |
| 10 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 11 | Of course you could try a tantalising headline but do remember that in the first instance you have to attract the attention and interest of the journalist or editor , who is not going to be tempted quite as easily as the reader might be . |
| 12 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 13 | Washing machine and cooker and fridge So of course you could have in here . |
| 14 | Oh and if you 're paying that kind of money you could afford a mortgage could n't you ? |
| 15 | What followed was the only bit of gamesmanship you could accuse Lee Trevino of . |
| 16 | I gave Rex the kind of nod you could tell your grandchildren about . |
| 17 | ‘ Tourist ’ was about the worst term of abuse you could use . |
| 18 | With so much of interest to discover and such a wealth of magnificent coast and countryside to explore , within even an hour or two of home you could find yourself in a beautiful new world . |
| 19 | erm and it 's malleable , you can hammer it , you can hammer it into shapes and panel beat it a car or bits of lead you could dress it , you can tap it with a . |
| 20 | It seemed to me it were the type of place you could sit and do your knitting . |
| 21 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 22 | You 've had various references to P P G seven , er I 'm sure if we went through all the various proofs of evidence you could reconstruct the entire of P P G seven . |
| 23 | He was the kind of manager you could approach without hesitation and he had a sharp sense of humour . |
| 24 | It is easy to describe the kinds of sequence you could hope to find in dramatic material . |
| 25 | The menu was certainly comprehensive offering every kind of burger you could wish for an pages and pages of Mexican and Cajun dishes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well , he was n't exactly the sort of man you could overlook , was he ? |
| 28 | But you 'd never notice it — not with the kind of acceleration you could manage . |
| 29 | ‘ You could install it and with five minutes of training you could use it . |
| 30 | In other words , I mean that was a basic kind of training you could get as a mechanical engineer . |