Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , you could step up the exotic look and imitate the Maquis . |
| 2 | You could travel up the Blue Nile |
| 3 | Anyway , you could scratch up the rifling with a file and steel wool so that it would never give the same markings on a bullet again . ’ |
| 4 | Would n't it be wonderful if you could melt away the flab simply by smoothing in a special cream , or break down fat by rubbing away at your wobbly bits ? |
| 5 | Perhaps you could blow out the candles in here and then check that the ones in the living-room are safe ? |
| 6 | So the very fact that the offspring are more mature , would reduce conflict , because the degree of value of the sources is going to be much greater , in other words , you could give up the sweet . |
| 7 | You could tell where the best-known pros or the most famous celebrities were by the larger galleries following them . |
| 8 | well then , then you could really , would be , I 'll always start on , you could go down the police station and have a word with them , see what they think , and they 'll probably put you in touch with somebody , cos they know everything they know what |
| 9 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 10 | Alternatively , you could set up the WP3–7 to give two different volume levels , different sounds for slap and fingerstyle , different EQs for your fretted and fretless basses , or any other combination . |
| 11 | This is the first Windows Application we 've come across where you could throw away the manual , the on-screen help is really that good ! |
| 12 | That is handy if you could bring just the six pounds . |
| 13 | Later you could explain again the reasons for your action . |
| 14 | This is probably the first Windows Application that we 've reviewed where you could lock away the manual , a great on-screen help system helps both the novice or experienced user . |
| 15 | For example , the first time the players ask for a description , you could read out the following : |
| 16 | Even if you sold the house you live in , there is no way in which you could buy back the paintings , even if the owners would sell . |
| 17 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 18 | I said you could pick out the ones Ma had done . |
| 19 | I would be very grateful if you could list out the mods that are really required in order to carry out this job . |
| 20 | If you could cut out the sound track of shells and sniper fire , ignore the gaping holes in the beautiful buildings and the lack of water and electricity , and did n't notice the rubbish in the streets , you would think of it as a normal city . ’ |
| 21 | And then there 's traces of er you know you could see where the old foundations and things were . |
| 22 | ‘ You could kill off the entire German army without any of us having to fire a shot , ’ said Charlie . |
| 23 | If the Prime Minister is walking in his garden on a summer 's morning you could push up the rickety sash — like this — and call down to him . |
| 24 | We wonder whether this has anything to do with an ‘ upgradeable ’ machine DEC seems to be using where you could yank out the 80486 and substitute a P5 . |
| 25 | ‘ There was a lot to do with telephones , ’ says Ian , ‘ like you could turn down the stereo as you picked up the phone ! ’ |
| 26 | If you 've got a minute you could fill up the coffee machine again , and I 'll have a word with Jerry when I get back down . ’ |
| 27 | In the second : the obvious views , you could fill in the form for me . |
| 28 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 29 | So what they did eventually , they put sort of call boxes occasionally , in different parts of the borough so during the night you could ring up the station . |
| 30 | You could ring up the station . |