Example sentences of "could [verb] you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware that I could trust you in a crisis . |
| 2 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 3 | The brochure also would have outlined a number of other aspects in in more detail than I could give you on the phone . |
| 4 | I do n't have anything else that I could show you at the moment I 'm afraid . |
| 5 | If I could refer you to the block beneath there on carry forwards , you started this year , bringing forward savings and under-spendings and various other contingencies of just over one and half million . |
| 6 | Yet photography is a much more immediate and less expensive way of having one 's likeness preserved for posterity : why is it fashionable to spend hours sitting motionless for Emma Sergeant when Snowdon could snap you in a mere 40 minutes ? |
| 7 | I could see you through the keyhole . |
| 8 | By Hilary Applegate IF YOUR garden suffers from slow-draining surface water , slow plant growth or shallow rooting , it could pay dividends to find out whether a soil profile could provide you with a diagnosis . |
| 9 | I said I wish I could provide you with a bed , I ca n't . |
| 10 | If so , a Raleigh International overseas expedition could provide you with the opportunity of a lifetime . |
| 11 | Someone who could touch you from a distance — a tiny electric ripple across your shoulders , a pucker of muscle , a goose across your grave . |
| 12 | If you are earning more money and you hav n't got enough points , they could move you from a specialist department to a police station . |
| 13 | ‘ I could take you across a desert , ’ I said . |
| 14 | This this could take you into the Leeds district as being a suitable location for a settlement which would meet this criterion . |
| 15 | I could take you to a really good tea-room , just up the road … |
| 16 | If you have the right skills , the knowledge , the personal qualities and the management potential it could take you from a purely scientific discipline into the most senior scientific managerial ranks within the Civil Service . |
| 17 | I could hear you in the heather , saying " Not far now " and it was annoying me . |
| 18 | So it er could pay you in the first year of business to incur any capital that you could afford , because you can either get it against your first year 's profits , or by not using the capital allowances , it 's available for subsequent years ' profit . |
| 19 | Even if you do n't normally wear make-up , you will probably need some on your wedding day as white or even ivory reflects on the skin and could leave you with a washed-out look . |
| 20 | I could tell you about the money he has lent to people and never got back . |
| 21 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's better , ’ said Joe , ‘ in that kind of mood I could put you on a horse and let you join in the charge of the Light Brigade . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the worst thing for a hangover and could put you on the slippery slope to alcoholism , ’ warns the magazine . |
| 24 | The eclipses of May 21 , June 4 and November 29 set in motion changes that could put you in a new professional space by 1994 , if not before . |
| 25 | I wisht I could put you in a cage with about a million mice and let you have fun . ’ |
| 26 | An image consultant such as Public Persona could point you in the right direction . |
| 27 | The spirit of 1992 and European unity could get you on a freebie to the Himalayas . |
| 28 | If you 're not so visual , I could programme you into an Islamic based course . ’ |
| 29 | Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life . |
| 30 | " I could help you with the spelling , I suppose . |