Example sentences of "she could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She could have left it herself , ’ said Mrs Cornforth . |
| 2 | ‘ She could have seduced Thomas , ’ suggested Mary . |
| 3 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |
| 4 | Although the mother accepted that the child 's immediate future lay with her foster parents and there was no immediate prospect that she could have her back , she wanted to keep the door open and therefore she refused her consent to the adoption . |
| 5 | From there she could have travelled to France or Belgium but it is not known whether she boarded a ferry . |
| 6 | I sent a letter to Mrs Thatcher saying if she was so hard up as only to pay us 40p , then she could have the money back . ’ |
| 7 | Strategically , the alliance with Japan and the entente with France were expressions of this instinct ; economically , it released the yearning for a closed area within which Britain could be commercially safe , even if perhaps less well-off than if she could have outfaced her rivals in open competition . |
| 8 | She could have been at home , warm and snug . |
| 9 | She could have been at Lisa 's house , laughing . |
| 10 | She could have been alone with in dark shadow in her breast , nourishing it quietly and secretly . |
| 11 | Now she felt that she could have used Phoebe in her struggle with Fenna . |
| 12 | This meant that she could have used the Convention 's rulings on child abduction to get Eva back . |
| 13 | The day after her accident we went to the swimming baths so she could have a shower . |
| 14 | ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband . |
| 15 | If Jamie had n't let the dog off the lead she could have been there much longer . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She 's been with me in Cambridge all day — I told her she could have Sunday off . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You mean she could have run into trouble as a result of her professional activities ? ’ he asked , cautiously . |
| 18 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |
| 19 | We own the building and all the partners have keys , so unless someone else was here she could have been in and out without anyone noticing . ’ |
| 20 | The doctor who had done the autopsy , however , had scouted , promptly , any suggestion that she could have moved thereafter . |
| 21 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 22 | She could have been a top model . |
| 23 | Nigel was looking forward to the occasion and Gina had promised to be especially nice and polite as long as she could have one of her friends there to make up a foursome . |
| 24 | Moira said she would ask her parents if she could have a drink with him . |
| 25 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 26 | She could have bitten her tongue off , letting herself be carried away like that . |
| 27 | She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything . |
| 28 | It was mikva night , and the last thing in the world that she felt like doing was making love to her husband — she could have quite cheerfully strangled him ! |
| 29 | She could have mentioned how Leila was thinking of leaving the group , but held back . |
| 30 | At that moment María Sanchez , her face embarrassed and alarmed , glided up to us and asked if she could have a word in private . |