Example sentences of "you could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps you could have two pieces of broken gramophone record with you as a prop to start the extract . |
| 3 | You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained . |
| 4 | You could have talked to her , he said , you could have explained . |
| 5 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 6 | You could have Nanny 's room , next to mine . ’ |
| 7 | Otherwise you could have seen the garden , although there 's not much to look at at this time of the year . ’ |
| 8 | Or rather you 're stuck with a lot less than you could have . |
| 9 | Always analyse how you could have improved your approach and landing and why you did not manage to touch down nearer to the spot . |
| 10 | It simply means that you have ‘ frozen ’ on the airbrake lever and have undershot when you could have saved the situation . |
| 11 | ‘ You could have tried , ’ she grumbled . |
| 12 | ‘ You could have another drink . ’ |
| 13 | Unless you do something about it you will be losing money — money you could have invested in new equipment , or better marketing , or taking on more employees . |
| 14 | Money you could have used to make your future , and that of all your employees , more secure and more prosperous . |
| 15 | Guaranteed the best fun you could have in a London pub , unless George Michael reformed Wham and chose the Fulham Greyhound to warm-up for their comeback world tour . |
| 16 | There are strict time limits : generally , six years from when damage first occurred ; where the damage was initially ‘ latent ’ you are given longer — three years from when you could have discovered it , with a longstop of 15 years . |
| 17 | THE MUDDLES all come from thinking you could have a better idea of God or a worse one or any idea of God at all . |
| 18 | Mr Carey added : ‘ You were so keen to have your own way with her that you disregarded the fact that you could have made her pregnant . ’ |
| 19 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 20 | You could have stolen another few minutes , ’ she said as if the evening had never happened . |
| 21 | You could have fun in this car . |
| 22 | You could have fun in this car |
| 23 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 24 | You could have respect for a man who lusted after you and fought for you and took you . |
| 25 | If you answer ‘ yes ’ to two or more of these questions , it 's time for a little self-examination — you could have a problem . |
| 26 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 27 | Unlike all those old spaceships , there is no way you could have done this without using advanced computer graphics . |
| 28 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 29 | It got to the point where you could have one musical act , then you 'd have a puppeteering act , all on a Sunday night under the guise of the Beckenham folk club . |
| 30 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |