Example sentences of "you could 've " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reck'n ye could 've fried the eggs on the cylinder heads it 's so bright and clean and polished . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather ! |
| 3 | ‘ You could 've said ! ’ |
| 4 | You could 've used that wind to scour pans . |
| 5 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 6 | ‘ You could 've told me that inside the room , not drag me out here , ’ Duncan replied , irritated by the policeman 's need for secrecy . |
| 7 | There was no way really that you could 've avoided coming into contact with it anyway at my age on the estate . |
| 8 | " You could 've had Harry without any competition at all , if you 'd so much as bent your little finger . |
| 9 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 10 | You could 've told me to mind my own business . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You could 've just hidden it , ’ said Betty . |
| 12 | ‘ You could 've gone to Memet 's uncle 's place , ’ said Constance . |
| 13 | ‘ I doubt if you could 've found him , ’ said Constance . |
| 14 | Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver . |
| 15 | You could 've knocked me down with a feather when they tol ’ me . ’ |
| 16 | If we had n't got you up here pretty quick you could 've lost it , you know . ’ |
| 17 | You could 've heard a critic smile ! |
| 18 | I wish you could 've seen them , ’ said the housekeeper , her arms akimbo , her plump face flushed with indignation . |
| 19 | You could 've been her daughter . ’ |
| 20 | You could 've fooled me , ’ she lashed at him on a half-sob , her arms crossing her chest while her hands made an effort to massage the shoulder soreness caused by his gripping fingers . |
| 21 | What a shame you did n't know , you could 've put your glad rags on . ’ |
| 22 | I cleaned the whole apartment when I was pregnant — Jesus , I was at it from morning till night , you could 've eaten your breakfast off of the john . ’ |
| 23 | Then she said , ‘ Well you could 've asked her . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway , I found out 'oo it was , you could 've knocked me down wiv a fevver . |
| 25 | You could 've made it work if the peasants if the peasants were revolutionary , if the peasants had changed their value system and were n't and that there were very few who were still working within the economy . |
| 26 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 27 | Yes , yeah you could 've done |
| 28 | yeah , you could 've |
| 29 | The other thing is as well though you could 've actually got more out of Martin by talking about that because you may have mentioned something that he 's enjoying and says oh I do that , or something like that . |
| 30 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |