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Example sentences for "could you"

  • Could you point it out to me from the window?

  • Could you, Clara, could you promise me--I hold to it.

  • Could you, Clara, could you conceive it, could you simply conceive it--give him your hand?

  • He meditated profoundly, and asked her: "Could you be such a saint among women?

  • Could you go as you have come--taking no more than you brought; leaving that man as you found him?

  • Suppose you had two hundred and fifty pounds; could you make a start, do you think?

  • Could you endure to be hated in your own home, or I to know that you deserved it?

  • Or, if you could, could you bear to see me hated and my life made miserable?

  • And were I not what I am, could you give me the preference to any other you know in the world, notwithstanding what has passed between us?

  • Well, then, I suppose you would have me conclude you my brother's wife; could you not?

  • You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and insert in't, could you not?

  • Have you beheld, Or have you read or heard, or could you think?

  • Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?

  • If you had loved a man and told him of it, and agreed to be his wife and done as I have, could you bear to be told to think of him no more,--just as though you had got rid of a servant or a horse?

  • You couldn't let me have a couple of hundred;--could you, sir?

  • Could you show me any case in your books in which the man has not got some outfit from you?

  • Could you not do it if you were selling to the retail dealers direct?

  • Could you make a better bargain with anybody else?

  • Could you give me a note of the principal purchasers at the sales during the last two or three years in Unst?

  • A mother can hardly send her son away so easily: could you send me away, uncle?

  • You could let me have a farm; could you not, sir?

  • You couldn't go up to the master yourself, could you now, Hannah?

  • I could do wiv a bit o' peck, an' I lay so could you.

  • Could you not by a desperate effort break this habit that may--that must--inevitably bring misery to your wife?

  • Could you give me what time I might require?

  • I could stay here all night listening to you--" "Could you?

  • Could you tell me how near to some road we are?

  • What I mean, Miss West, is this: suppose that your figure is what I have an idea it is; could you give me a lot of time ahead?

  • Could you--could you--make yourself free?

  • Could you be ill, or troubled, or even perplexed, and I not know, though the whole world lay between us?

  • Could you, please, go away, unless you want to buy something?

  • Polly with a sorry droop to the bright head, and clasping her hands, "could you, Dr.

  • Could you do so, deep would surely answer deep!

  • Could you spare a poor sick soldier a bite to eat?


    • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could bring; could discern; could form; could hardly; could haue; could help; could manage; could mean; could muster; could not; could not have been; could not help being; could not help saying; could play; could ride; could scarce; could succeed; could swim; could take; could trust; could venture; could wish; could write; dare not; two sockets under one; wood and wood products