Example sentences of "[pers pn] could have [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have brought me watch down , I need a battery in it tt heck |
| 2 | If only she could have seen me skulking around at Cliff Top , the very picture of melancholy . |
| 3 | You could 've told me to mind my own business . ’ |
| 4 | Still , I suppose I ca n't complain : you could have let me drown , after all . ’ |
| 5 | It 's why you pulled me back inside the train when you could have left me to die . |
| 6 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 7 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 8 | He knew about them investigations , that I was being watched , and he could have told me to slow down a bit . |