Example sentences of "you could [vb infin] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , you could fix floor to ceiling mirror panels to the walls , either at right angles to the window , or on the wall opposite . |
| 2 | If you used a hardwood sill , you could fix draught-strip to it instead of the door . |
| 3 | So you could relate positivity to achievement and see what you have access to that might express that . |
| 4 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 5 | Three , you could arrange payment of the deposit as requested , possibly for a certain period of time and possibly for a smaller amount than demanded , this would no doubt by in the process of the licence . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd be grateful if you could spare time for a fitting , and I did think it would be a good idea if I could hold a rehearsal of everyone concerned in my part of the show before the official one . |
| 7 | That in 1925 you could watch motor-racing on the Promenade from a tramcar grandstand ? |
| 8 | By 1990 you could watch TV round the clock . |
| 9 | You could feel sympathy for the child that you were , but you would not actually experience that pain today . |
| 10 | A few months before , if anyone had told him you could feel dislike for your own child , a real aversion from your own flesh and blood , he would not have believed them . |
| 11 | So you could , you reckon you could do sort of any number of those ? |
| 12 | Yes , you could make music on one but that would be sacrilegious considering all the other exciting possibilities that it has to offer : eg. killing fascists ( Woody Guthrie ) , saying sorry ( Billy Bragg ) , as a firelighter ( Jimi Hendrix ) , for clubbing amplifiers senseless ( Pete Townshend ) , for levelling stage floorboards ( Ritchie Blackmore ) , as a mini-TV stand ( Billy Gibbons ) , to stimulate groupies ( Steve Vai ) , to cream yourself ( Hendrix again , that infamous Tokai advert or even that sad figure in the current Trantec Systems advert ) , as a shop sign ( Original Flying Vee ) , as a cricket bat ( Ian Botham with the Staccato magnesium bass ) , as a baseball bat ( Steinberger XL ) , you could use one to kill her mama ( like Frank and Dweezil ) and , if you are still bored after all that , you could electrocute yourself with it through your dangerously hot-rodded stack . |
| 13 | ‘ If you could make contact with Bell , it might give us an in we 've never been able — ’ |
| 14 | Erm I would , I think it would be very useful if you could make time in the next day or so , you do n't have to spend long on this you know , if you just spent sort of |
| 15 | YOU TOLD ME YOU COULD GET IT FROM TOILET SEATS . |
| 16 | Erm if you were interested in probation then maybe you could get work in a probation hostel er you know as , as some sort of er assistant . |
| 17 | I do n't know if it was by accident — I should ask him one day — but I used to play that over and over again and just revel in that sound , and I thought if you could get hold of that sound and make a feature of it , and if it were not just two guitars but as many as you needed to make a proper arrangement , the possibilities would be endless . |
| 18 | The furniture you got was just little bits and pieces you could get hold of , and you had to go into debt for it . |
| 19 | If you ca n't wait for next month then you could get hold of a copy of my book ‘ QBasic:The Language of MS-DOS ’ . |
| 20 | if you could get hold of any before I went out , I need to be out at quarter to ten . |
| 21 | If you could get hold of it . |
| 22 | If I if you 've got people in prison and then you had to go visiting you , you could get relief after , after the first twenty five pounds , so if the expenses were going to see somebody in prison were more than twenty five pounds I could get relief with them |
| 23 | In the Fifties the question was whether you could claim protection under the Fifth Amendment , which grants the right not to incriminate oneself . |
| 24 | You could have sex in front of mirrors ; take Polaroids and videos ; or watch each other jerking off … |
| 25 | Then when you asked me if you could have Bill for Thursday morning . |
| 26 | You could have fun in this car . |
| 27 | You could have fun in this car |
| 28 | Ever thought you could have fun in the red ? |
| 29 | — You could have access to the finest minds in the business … men and women with vast development experience , who often literally wrote the book on the topics they specialize in . |
| 30 | Erm er I do n't know , I mean maybe it would be like it would be like you give a fairly sort of neutral statement and you have the adjectives at the end of the scale give indicate the responses like y'know something like how do you feel about homosexuality and you could have sort of y'know erm natural to unnatural or something like that erm |