Example sentences of "but you could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 2 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 3 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |
| 4 | I mean , well if you have n't got gauze in your first aid box , but you could have something like a Mediwipe or you might be able to use , open up your bandage and you can use , you know , several pieces of this , just keep going down the bandage and then you know clean it and get rid of that bit , okay , another clean bit okay , so you can adapt with whatever you 've got in your first aid box , yes , and you wo n't necessarily have scissors to hand so you 'll have to do whatever you 've got and the little Mediwipes are very useful for that , but do n't use one Mediwipe for seventy five grazes , okay , one Mediwipe for one wipe and then discard , okay ? |
| 5 | Obviously eventually if people keep on leaking blood their pressure will fall but you could have a situation where there 's not a single drop of blood yet lost to the system and yet the person 's in shock because the blood 's not being circulated properly off the heart , not a drop of blood lost to the system , but insufficient pressure , so shock can be caused by either of those two things , failure of the circulatory system because the pressure of the volume drops dangerously low , okay , you did a lot of work on what the person looks like , yes you as the casu you as the first aider will see this person in front of you , what will they be like ? |
| 6 | ' ’ But you could have ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing now , ’ she answered , ‘ but you could have died in this hut of yours . ’ |
| 8 | Well what they drop I d I do n't know , but you could have applied |
| 9 | ‘ But you could have gone back north . |
| 10 | ‘ But you could have any woman in the world . |
| 11 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 12 | But you could have er , be er could now be referring to a different row that happens to have the same numbers in . |
| 13 | They were not strictly speaking , ‘ Carry Ons ’ but you could have fooled the audiences . |
| 14 | ‘ But you could have sold it and used the money to buy a property back home . |
| 15 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 16 | I know , but you could have a , yes but you could have a jumper to go with the trousers , lilac 's nice |
| 17 | I know , but you could have a , yes but you could have a jumper to go with the trousers , lilac 's nice |