Example sentences of "you could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right next part of section one , did you collect the information by the deadline which means were you able to complete it in your form time with your form tutor and bring it to the lesson so that you could start on the s on the graph . |
| 2 | I am anxious that you should start work on this project as soon as possible , so that there are no last-minute delays , I should therefore be grateful if you could start on the first batch of frames , of which I give details below : |
| 3 | The problem with the building was that they had made it suicide-proof , so there were no windows you could open on the front . |
| 4 | But in Durham we had three rooms and a toilet outside and a little garden where you could sit in the summer . |
| 5 | And you could sit in the back . |
| 6 | Yeah , you could fish in the river then . |
| 7 | You could hide under the counter . ’ |
| 8 | For the more energetic there was still the disco where you could dance until the early hours . |
| 9 | ‘ You could stay with the Ballards ; Zelah would love that . ’ |
| 10 | Oh , says I , aye , I says , you could stay in the village . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir John , ’ Mandeville called , ‘ I should be grateful if you could stay in the hall . |
| 12 | Well , you could stay in the spare room over with me , out in the bedroom in the back there , for thirty dollars a night ? ’ |
| 13 | He would pretend — for he always had his excuses well marshalled in preparation for any surprise attack of questioning — that he had been disinclined to stop because of the stone 's unnaturalness resulting from Mr Pocklington 's enthusiastic enterprise in housing an old woman there whose hand — for a fee — you could shake under the stone . |
| 14 | You could eat off the floor in her house . |
| 15 | Although it may be too late to gather any more that season , you would at least have a permanent record so you could return in the following year to collect some more . |
| 16 | If you do n't have any coloured paper you could draw on the trefoils and then colour them . |
| 17 | To help with this you could refer to the section on listening ( p. 113 ) and look at some of the guidelines there . |
| 18 | That 's what holidays were for — looking at your toes , wandering on the beach , hours of sitting and staring , standing and staring , lying as long as you could bear in the sun with eyes closed . |
| 19 | A handsome yet sylvan prospect where you could promenade to the music of brass bands . |
| 20 | You could lean into the wind and it was raining like blazes . |
| 21 | Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings . |
| 22 | Years gone by in one town I you could tell from the drainage whether it was a colliery or a pottery . |
| 23 | He took a deep breath , " I was thinking , " he said slowly , conscious of her arms still round his waist ( no ; one hand went to her brow , smoothed her hair away from her eyes ; there , though , it went back again , clasped lightly behind him ! ) , " about … whether you could tell from the wine on the inside of a shoe what type it was . |
| 24 | Kate had liked it : you could tell by the way she fingered the material , by the way she looked at herself in the mirror with her chin lifted just a little higher than usual . |
| 25 | She was singing a love song , you could tell by the eyebrows . |
| 26 | Er certainly Forest believed it was and Ward believed it was a free kick you could tell by the expression on his face . |
| 27 | Just as we were supposed to accept their stories about how this was the only country in which you could ski in the mountains in the morning and swim in the Mediterranean in the afternoon . |
| 28 | We can , we can put it all under one roof , and the d the design came out er good erm so that you could walk from the end of the , the machine shop was extended and you could walk from there into the catapult shop directly , or straight into the er fitting base , and thence down onto the welding sections . |
| 29 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 30 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |