Example sentences of "and [conj] you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 2 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 3 | He knew that there was a big market in Japan and that you could tour there fairly economically because it was such a small cluster of islands , and he just decided he would . |
| 4 | ‘ You wished that the picture could become old , and that you could stay young . |
| 5 | Write down some things you do that may get in the way of a good relationship and that you could improve . |
| 6 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 7 | So it was things that was n't too heavy to carry but things that was always needed in a house and that you could run out of . |
| 8 | er they , you know , were people that you trust and that you could ask questions that you would n't be embarrassed |
| 9 | And so you could plough that straight back in |
| 10 | and so you could pull it in just until it stops flapping and then you 'd be able to sail away and we 'd never see you again . |
| 11 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 12 | ‘ And if you could meet Swire Sugden yourself he might listen to you being an honourable an' all that , ’ said Otley to my amazement , I never knew he was a royalist . |
| 13 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 14 | And if you could stop them laughing so … so raucously all night and … and' ’ |
| 15 | And if you could go back , would you stay in Beirut just because you had a nice home there ? ’ |
| 16 | I would be grateful to hear your views on this proposal , and if you could let me know whether we could be of assistance in the project . |
| 17 | ‘ And if you could see your way clear to buy me one of those little Scottish drummer-girl dolls in the transparent plastic cartons . ’ |
| 18 | And if you could pop in there , you know what it is I 'm |
| 19 | Then they want you to run it for two year , have a mobile home , and if you could prove it 's viable after two years , then there would be a reminder and we 'll consider giving you permission for a house , otherwise , everybody could just put up one tun poly tunnel in half an acre and get a house , could n't they ? |
| 20 | Technically you are both liable for the overdraft and if you could find this man you could sue him . |
| 21 | And if you could get here by half past seven those of you who have got items , it 'll be much appreciated cos it takes quite a time to set them out . |
| 22 | ‘ It might be a good one and if you could get an appointment as their vet it would be another feather in your cap . ’ |
| 23 | And and you could get a feel for the fact that they did do it . |
| 24 | Think how many management consultants ( agents of organisational change ) there are — 1,763 firms at the last official count — and while you could say the internal cost in terms of management person hours and midnight oil bills dwarves the external consultant fee that goes with it , it does n't leave an awful lot for the average consultancy of Runnit Downe Foryewe & Howe , even if every firm blew an assignment each . |
| 25 | I remember coming home from school and before you could do homework or go out to play there were always chores to do — you know , our own set of chores . |
| 26 | You might be in here , harmless , visiting somebody , and before you could say Werewolves Unite they 'd have you on the operating table , jacking both legs off . |
| 27 | Whereupon I fell about in my chair at this with an effective simulacrum of sycophancy , then matadored the old charm around in front of him for a few minutes , and before you could say fundador Walt was on his knees begging me for the coup de grâce . |
| 28 | The attractiveness of these ideas will depend , of course , on the nature of your work and whether you could contribute to and benefit from working with others . |
| 29 | Or at least he was the kind of frog who was interested in how flowers grew and whether you could get to other flowers if you jumped hard enough . |