Example sentences of "you could [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Till we get the thicker card you could start the painting . |
| 2 | Make sure you do n't put the ice directly on the skin as you could burn the area — wrap it in a tea towel or an old shirt first . |
| 3 | If you could burn the fuel at a higher temperature , then the second law of thermodynamics says that the conversion can be more efficient . |
| 4 | Erm and I suppose you could regard the Thirty Years War too er as being a , a total war in this sense in , in that the objectives of the war is the crushing of opposition , unconditional surrender . |
| 5 | Perhaps you could open the door , could you ? ’ |
| 6 | Alternatively , you could open the dog 's mouth and remove the item . |
| 7 | You could open the doors but it was impossible to get into the car . |
| 8 | You could place the female Guppy in a breeding trap or a separate tank and return her to the main tank after she has given birth . |
| 9 | Alternatively , you could place the template on the cake and stick little pins in along the outline and any details . |
| 10 | Not a true beauty , but the girl beckoned you off the paper ; confident , sexy , that face invited you to join in if you could stand the pace . |
| 11 | Well , if you think you could stand the strain of being part of this family , you 're welcome . |
| 12 | It would be a great help to all our officers in planning future strategies ( and probably of considerable interest to you ) if you could enlist the help of your class members to complete the enclosed survey ( either by photocopying the form and filling in one each or by a show of hands and entering the total numbers ) Please let Pat Palmer have the results at or before the Reunion on 19th November . |
| 13 | We talked about Niki in Austria and from that conversation I realized that the two drivers were reverse medals of each other and that if you could combine the two , you would probably have the perfect driver . |
| 14 | The main route for Day 10 is a fairly short walk in any case , as is Day 11 , so if you 're feeling fit you could combine the two . |
| 15 | maybe you could combine the two that 's what I was thinking . |
| 16 | You could restore the original layout and typography , identify the genre , the title , the publisher , the author , the dedication , make a guess at the identity of Jean and Helga , say that this is only the beginning of something , predict possible continuations , say whether you would read on … and answer many other questions besides . |
| 17 | You said that only you could assemble the apparatus . ’ |
| 18 | Depending on the obstructions you find , you could site the building exactly alongside the house , bring it forward of the building line ( if the planners will allow this — see later ) , or set it back into the garden . |
| 19 | I would be grateful if you could send the cheque along with the attached application form to : |
| 20 | I would be most grateful if you could send the print as soon as possible to : Please send the invoice to me at our office in Welshpool . |
| 21 | I should be most grateful if you could send the Library a copy of the above work . |
| 22 | I understand that you have recently been allocated a new ISBN prefix by the Standard Book Numbering Agency Ltd and I am writing to ask if you could send the Library copies of your current and forthcoming publications . |
| 23 | You could send the boys round as well could n't you ? rugby squad . |
| 24 | dolls clothes ' patterns as well yesterday and they were n't half old cos on one of them there was a , a doll that you could send the doll for , there was a lot of those in Women 's Weekly were n't there ? |
| 25 | You could — you could hide the Crown Jewels there , ’ Oliver said blissfully . |
| 26 | Wyspiański wrote : ‘ You could pay the wide world a visit / Watch it grow and grow / But Poland you 'd never find . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 've got plenty of money , why should you want me when you could pay the best in Swansea ? ’ |
| 28 | Whatever you do , do n't press both sides of the neck at the same time : you could diminish the flow of blood to the head , or even cut it off . |
| 29 | If you could wave the programme we 're more likely to see you . |
| 30 | You could choose the Emperor as your General , but he could equally well be one of the Elector Counts , the Reiksmarshall of the Empire , or even a powerful Burgomeister from one of the City States . |