Example sentences of "you could buy " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been amazed that in London you could buy ready-made couscous in packets , and that the English used it in their cooking . |
| 2 | ‘ You could buy there skiers in glass bottles … clockwork marmots , goat horns … sunglasses , imitation butter-churns , my books . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Even forgetting the fact that the Cobra was the fastest accelerating car you could buy at the time , that only puts it between the £21,620 Elan SE and the entry level £26,400 Excel SE , close to the £22,363 Morgan plus eight and even closer to the £23,526 Toyota Supra Turbo . |
| 5 | ‘ At Baby 's hospital , you could buy a bunch from the flower-lady near the gate . |
| 6 | Jelly babies , dolly mixtures , love hearts that said ‘ Kiss me quick ’ , and if you saved up for two weeks you could buy a whipped cream walnut . |
| 7 | Most of the training shoe addicts would never dream of getting a pair you could buy in the city centre in Liverpool . |
| 8 | But as the Holkham sale amply demonstrated last year , for the price of one Degas ( Racehorses fetched £6.8 million in June 1991 ) you could buy 66 superb pieces from one of Britain 's finest collections . |
| 9 | Something you could buy over the counter at a supermarket . |
| 10 | There was a hotel , where you could buy an alcoholic drink , but there was only one variety of beer , which you would have to drink from the bottle at five times the English price . |
| 11 | • when you could buy all of the top five best-selling singles and still have change form a pound ? |
| 12 | There you could buy a pennyworth of chips and a piece of cod for tuppence — served on a plate if you wished . |
| 13 | This is one of the most important insurance policies you could buy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such amplifiers are made but you could buy a reasonable family car for the same price . |
| 16 | You could buy your own fighter plane for that ! |
| 17 | Remember , at this time you could buy a really good Martin flat-top for around forty dollars , but the cheapest Tri-Plate — the plain , unengraved Style 1 — would cost you eighty-five dollars . |
| 18 | You could buy yourself a small luxury each week as a symbolic message to your subconscious , so that it begins to attract money into your life . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if you do , you could buy a business , or you could buy growth shares on the stock market . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , if you do , you could buy a business , or you could buy growth shares on the stock market . |
| 21 | ‘ Who told you that you could buy a coffin from us ? ’ she demanded . |
| 22 | All recordings are genuine , manufactured and supplied by the world 's leading record companies — and are identical to those you could buy from any leading store . |
| 23 | Having found your Swan , compare the costs and the returns on that investment , with those of lesser boats you could buy new . |
| 24 | Get yourselves some real men , you know , maybe you could buy some of John Wayne 's frozen sperm and impregnate some of your frigid women with it . |
| 25 | ‘ Daddy , ’ she said , ‘ do you think you could buy me a book ? ’ |
| 26 | You could buy Pemberley calendars and Pemberley diaries . |
| 27 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 28 | You could buy a spare Big Boss , load him up with magic items , mount him on a wyvern and use him to pick off the enemy 's general or other vital pieces early in the game . |
| 29 | ‘ Gone are the days when you could buy what you wanted with a pair of Levi jeans and a Jerry Lee Lewis album , ’ commented Myeloski . |
| 30 | That afternoon a friend came round , Ruth and Jim , and they come round with a bottle of champagne , the best you could buy , and it was just like we 'd had a baby … |