Example sentences of "he could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 2 | She might then have been younger than Oswiu and her liaison with him could have occurred c . |
| 3 | In 1958 Ken 's star was rising faster than anyone who had known him could have thought possible . |
| 4 | ( He could have been infected by 1 of at least 3 different ways . |
| 5 | He was putting on his heavy overcoat , asked again casually if he could have a look at the glass . |
| 6 | ‘ We ca n't work out how he could have killed his wife while he was sitting at the opposite end of the table , ’ said Constable Bewman näively . |
| 7 | He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help — and sometimes got pretty short shrift in return . |
| 8 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 9 | He could have pushed the throttle forwards and avoided the accident by using the engine . |
| 10 | He could have laid in wait for the soldiers and split their heads and — ‘ Fight ? |
| 11 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 12 | The results confirm that he could have done very much better , but his mind was partly elsewhere , ever active , ever engaged , ever busy . |
| 13 | If he could have , if he had no responsibilities , he would rent hotel rooms , write plays , and go to auditions . |
| 14 | He could have boasted to world leaders of the model communist state he and his comrades have created , now widely recognised in the world , with happy contented people enjoying the highest standard of living in the Eastern bloc . |
| 15 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 16 | From that moment he could have transformed his country . |
| 17 | He could have been killed . |
| 18 | Mugabe exhorts them to remember the sacrifices made in the war for the sake of Zimbabwe , but young people are seldom interested in a previous generation 's sacrifices — as he could have learned from history . |
| 19 | He did have an alternative , he could have let the pound drop lower . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Edwards did not get the best price he could have , ’ a merchant banker said . |
| 22 | Afterwards he told her not to report the incident because he could have her ‘ nicked ’ for soliciting . |
| 23 | Lawson 's chosen weapon was the most politically damaging that he could have selected — successive increases in interest rates , to reach a minimum lending rate of 15 per cent by October 1989 , on the eve of the Tory party conference . |
| 24 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 25 | He thought that there was no barrier and that in time he could have done more for them . |
| 26 | If , therefore , the King had turned to Henderson after MacDonald had proffered his resignation , or had sought the views of Labour Privy Counsellors as suggested by Herbert Morrison , he could have been accused of wasting valuable time . |
| 27 | If Honderich had paid attention to clues like this he could have subjected the credentials of the new right to closer scrutiny and interrogated the development of Conservative thought with much greater sensitivity . |
| 28 | She knew that if he wanted to he could have killed her ; without apparent effort he held off her attack once the first shock had past . |
| 29 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 30 | He could have called out from where he stood but he did not . |