Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes if you get an easy one , fine , you could do it that way . |
| 2 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 3 | Funny way of writing it , but you ca you could write it that way . |
| 4 | ‘ You could put it that way . |
| 5 | ‘ You could put it that way , ’ the Doctor agreed . |
| 6 | And er a further er fly in the ointment , if one could put it that way , will be of course with the erm the local hospital whose site is just off this er the key plan provided , their decision from the first of next month to actually charge for spaces within their area , which of course will have a further effect of decanting even more cars into neighbouring streets and thus put pressure on some of the streets which hitherto have not benefited from ah residents ' parking so there will be further er obviously further requests from er from those residents of neighbouring streets . |
| 7 | It 's a question of just choosing and what you are saying is that you can increase you payback , if I could put it that way , by choosing numbers which are for whatever reason less popular with some people , simply because the payback is larger on those days . |
| 8 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 9 | You say they 've got some sort of guidance , perhaps through the Magistrates ' Association , or maybe through some local starting point tariff if I could put it that way . |
| 10 | But there is room for people , like myself for example , who have part interest in education , if I could put it that way , to spend some time working with you . |
| 11 | And that can detect erm tumours , body defects and so forth in a , in a non-destructive way if I could put it that way . |
| 12 | Is n't the situation really , erm taking it erm group violence , if I could put it that way , is n't it a question really checks and balances . |
| 13 | And not many years later than that you were involved with the Gardener Centre in one of its previous incarnations , if I could put it that way . |
| 14 | And I 'm going to suggest it 's in your interest to learn how the media operate , and it 's in your interest to cultivate the media , and it 's in your interest to actually persuade the media to do a lot of the work which you would normally do for yourselves if I could put it that way . |
| 15 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 16 | The conclusions are obvious enough : that there was a tendency among some Victorians to have fewer children where they could arrange it that way , and that improved medical care , hygiene , sanitation and living conditions generally were improving life-expectancy and helping to eradicate infant deaths . |