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. 1999 Feb 27;318(7183):576–579. doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7183.576

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Examples of “you could” for suggestion, spoken by doctors, in Cobuild concordancing program. <D>=doctor, <P>=patient, <C>=companion (for example, a mother with a young child)—these occur at the start of an utterance; <write3> is to be read as “doctor writes for 3 seconds”