Example sentences of "you could [adv] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 2 | Isabel 's eyes were suddenly opaque , you could no longer see into them and Kathleen shook her head . |
| 3 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |
| 4 | Also the same if you 're playing football with Jim on Thursday you could also just mention to , I 'll leave you a couple of these er these leaflets which do explain a lot of the areas we 've covered tonight , erm perhaps you could give one to Peter or |
| 5 | You do n't have to erm I mean you could also only put varnish on certain bits of it . |
| 6 | You could also thinly spread some glue on the cracker and sprinkle some glitter powder over it . |
| 7 | So those who say arti artificial abortion is unnatural , are I think er on a , on , on , skating on very thin ice , because you could equally well argue that it was just a continuation of a natural trend . |
| 8 | Now you could just about buy one wreck for that sort of money . |
| 9 | When he is perched precariously on a sandbag at the time , however , you could just about get away with charging extra . |
| 10 | Yeah I think it might be if you could just actually talk through it really rather than asking them to do it . |
| 11 | And because you could , you could just like ride away and not come back ever . |
| 12 | In the past if you wanted to get spiders out of your bath you could either patiently try to tempt them … or take action that was a little more drastic . |
| 13 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 14 | How did you apply pressure to a man you could not even find ? |
| 15 | You could not just say , Christ will help you bear it . |
| 16 | ‘ You could not simply go and leave Ana . ’ |
| 17 | You could not properly take account of my experience of separatism without acknowledging my feelings of being swept away by this sort of fervour . |
| 18 | You could not really beat a Human 's skin . |
| 19 | Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ . |
| 20 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 21 | Enter our simple competition and you could not only find yourself with the answer to all your bedroom storage needs , but also regain an extra , usable room . |
| 22 | If you had SUPERFILE you could not only produce MailSorted address labels for all those people , but you could do much subtler selections as well — all in a few minutes and at the press of a few keys . |
| 23 | In the matter of these smaller " possessions " , you might have thought that he would have let you get away with the things which you could not possibly do without , a set of fish-knives , for example , which had been a wedding present , or a " sketch of the Himalayas as seen from Darjeeling . |
| 24 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 25 | For example , we would often go on expeditions to Hay-on-Wye looking for French , nineteenth-century pattern books but if you found any yourself you could not possibly claim originality . |
| 26 | You could not be afraid of it , you could not possibly fear something so delicate and so insubstantial . |
| 27 | You could not always tell , of course , and today he looked smart enough in a navy-blue suit and highly polished black shoes , his hair well flattened and combed down . |
| 28 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 29 | A voice crying out a message which you could not always understand or believe in , but which was important . |
| 30 | If you could please now think of all the products available to stamp collectors . |