Example sentences of "could n't have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why could n't Wilson stand up to the allies , why could n't had stand up to Clements or Lloyd George , in particular ? |
| 2 | You could n't had it worst ! |
| 3 | Yesterday I could n't have done it . |
| 4 | Could n't have picked up the pen and opened the notebook and faced the blank page . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , you could n't have , ’ Mrs Yardley protested . |
| 6 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 7 | Francis said : ‘ I could n't have your patience , darling ! |
| 8 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 9 | Over the months , she found Martin could n't have sex sober . |
| 10 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 11 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 12 | And when the perpetrator was my own nephew , it could n't have hit any harder . |
| 13 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |
| 14 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 15 | See , the other week there , I was on beat duty and this wee nipper , could n't have been more than 6 or 7 , came round the corner and says to me , ‘ Fuck off , ya black bastard . ’ |
| 16 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 17 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 18 | There was a fair crowd there but it was scarcely crowded : John could n't have not noticed him . |
| 19 | It 's not because we could n't have done it . |
| 20 | ‘ Looking back on it the plan could n't have been simpler but we must have rehearsed it forty times . |
| 21 | ‘ Only for you it could n't have come to anything . ’ |
| 22 | All the legislation in the world could n't have coped with an accident of such violence . |
| 23 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |
| 24 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 25 | The machine is the crux of Ingrid 's business : her innovations in the craft of felting are contributory and her designs are responsible for the sort of client who commissions her , but without the machine it could n't have happened . |
| 26 | I immediately got a lot of media attention — Radio One could n't have made me fail . ’ |
| 27 | Both Clare and Elaine could n't have been happier . |
| 28 | That could n't have done him any good . ’ |
| 29 | Being in effect a doll , Blackeyes was as dumb as she was beautiful but I could n't have put it better myself . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |