Example sentences of "you could [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , you could sit on a Shetland cliff-top in summer and watch the sea-birds — terns , kittiwakes , gulls , auks and sometimes shag — feeding in concentrated groups on or just under the surface of the sea . |
| 2 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 3 | Very much in the spirit of the age , the hall , dining-room and drawingroom all open into each other with great double doors , so that you could entertain on a grand scale . |
| 4 | And you could walk fifty yards down the road and there 'd be somebody else building and you could walk on a say is that the job how much ? |
| 5 | Besides , you could go on a really severe diet and wear blonde wigs and blame it on Birdland . |
| 6 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |
| 7 | An example of a chart that you could construct on a card , or in your diary is shown opposite . |
| 8 | And if you 're short of something to do , ’ he added , ‘ you could get on a bus and go into the nearest town . |
| 9 | IF YOU were down on your luck in Devon in the early 18th Century , you could count on a hot meal at Bowden House , near Totnes . |
| 10 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 11 | To help you get out of the red you could call on a qualified chartered accountant for between £50 and £60 an hour . |
| 12 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |