Example sentences of "could have do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus looks great , could 've done more with the aliens |
| 2 | They could 've done more with the ‘ ol wizard too : unable to use most of the flashy weapons from the armoury , he accumulates huge amounts of dosh as he has nothing to spend it on . |
| 3 | Could 've done with you earlier , mate . ’ |
| 4 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 5 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
| 6 | But , I could 've done without them . |
| 7 | We could 've done it really , but it kept him in with the people like and er . |
| 8 | So anybody could 've done it ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Who could 've done such a terrible thing ? ’ |
| 10 | Could 've done if you 'd wanted one , though . ’ |
| 11 | Erm and one of the things I could 've done was to em er become a salaried employee of my own company which was a limited company but I paid myself as a consultant . |
| 12 | Yes , yeah you could 've done |
| 13 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 14 | And they want to come and see the factory , they want to go to yeah , it fell down cos Richard was too busy at the end of last year , fine get that sorted and i Sally was dropped in the crap by right at the end of last year , came on five sets of bearings , I could 've done 'em in two weeks . |
| 15 | You , you know , you , you got over it but er he , he did n't re he did n't come back to you when perhaps he could 've done if he was feeling a bit er aggressive at the time . |
| 16 | You could 've done right , okay , well you 're here now anyway . |
| 17 | Could 've done corned beef hash , could 've done some |
| 18 | Could 've done corned beef hash , could 've done some |
| 19 | I could 've done with that ! |
| 20 | I , I and you could 've done with a queen . |
| 21 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 22 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 23 | Then she decided to be awkward , like she always is , and said I says oh it 's still taping you know and I s she said summat , I ca n't remember what it were now but I was saying , I knew that 'd happen , one minute yes then no , then I 'll think about it , I says and if I did n't start it when you went out you 'd be saying you could 've done this and that and er so she were chittering , pretending she said I could n't do it . |
| 24 | when you said they could 've done it |
| 25 | Well you ca n't create stability , the Communist Party ca n't sort of I mean cos that 's what , sort of hindering long term investments and that how peasants do n't feel that how that things are secure , they and it 's difficult to see what the Communist Party could 've done |
| 26 | Could 've done , probably shoot myself |
| 27 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 28 | Ronnie could have done with one himself but he would have got arrested . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Does n't matter — I could have done it , ’ said David , pointedly . |
| 30 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |