Example sentences of "you could make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't over-react and take it out on your son or daughter before you know all the facts — or you could make a small problem bigger |
| 2 | More Melina Mercouri , hi , knees , glad you could make it , check food , what the hell that 's never a problem . |
| 3 | I had a friend who had one of those ancient slide machines which was used to give light shows , and you could make the slides out of coloured oils and inks and put them together between two sheets of glass and when they 're heated up inside the machine , they went , splat , splat , and made these rather beautiful moving colours . |
| 4 | Deep down in those subconscious depths was the suggestion that you could make people believe anything you wanted them to believe , if only you knew how to pronounce the magic formula that brought the genie from the bottle . |
| 5 | For example , you could make batches of meals from fresh food , then freeze them . |
| 6 | Social Worker : It may be wrong , but you could n't then make your body not a body which was the only way then you could make yourself not experience some pleasure . |
| 7 | You could make them see it so clearly if only you 'd try . ’ |
| 8 | If you lived there you could make it absolutely divine ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You could make something else , ’ said Robyn . |
| 10 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 11 | I 'm absolutely sure you could make it if you put your best foot forward next year . |
| 12 | You look like you could make good use of a break . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd say you could make your way up there , no trouble . |
| 14 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 15 | You could make a chart showing how you spend your time , and particularly how your leisure time is divided between domestic chores , car maintenance , TV , videos , taking the children out , the pub , visiting friends and relatives , and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 17 | If you feel , for example , that your appearance lets you down , perhaps you could spend a little time studying magazine features to see where you could make some changes . |
| 18 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 19 | IF YOU watch television and listen to news-readers , leaders of industry , pop-bawlers and ‘ presenters ’ , you could make a whole glossary of words that have been shortened in the interests of inarticulacy and idleness . |
| 20 | That 's when I thought you could make money out of gardening . |
| 21 | By taking six simple steps you could make your home snug fur half the price . |
| 22 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |
| 23 | The call the night before : Mohammed ca n't fly tomorrow , his gland has come up again , anyway , he mentioned your name , said you 're rated for the 35 , wonder if you could make it £200 cash and your exes ? |
| 24 | For a large gathering , you could make all four dishes ( finishing with one of the desserts on page 16 ) — or choose your favourites . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm so happy you could make it , my favourite jockey . ’ |
| 26 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 27 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 28 | You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap . |
| 29 | To compensate , you could make more use of wall space with pictures , mirrors or decorative wall plates . |
| 30 | If you are in fluid situation house-wise , you could make the purchase of a lifetime . |