Example sentences of "[noun prp] could [vb infin] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 2 | That trip must have revived Nicolae 's memories of his time in Stalin 's Moscow , but the frenzied adulation of Mao surpassed anything that Ceauşescu could have witnessed in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | But within a minute that Renault could have turned off the main road and got lost in the maze of lanes to the west of Sandwich Flats . |
| 4 | Er Harry Truman could 've run for the presidency in nineteen fifty two but chose not to . |
| 5 | Approaching Wallowa Lake , he found the Nez Perce warriors mounted on an impregnable high bluff , and reported : ‘ Joseph could have fallen upon the settlers in detail , killing them and destroying their property … |
| 6 | Kevin could have slept on the other side |
| 7 | Without this rescue , GPA could have landed in the hands of examiners under Irish law ( a tougher version of America 's chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings ) . |
| 8 | Keegan also revealed that Ray Ranson could have gone before the transfer deadline but decided to stay and fight for his place . |
| 9 | For another year , the Genoese could continue to squat in the wreck of the city , clutching the rights to their ruined , foundering colony ; promoting nothing ; permitting nothing to flourish , either of theirs or the Bastard 's . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems to me that both you and Peter could have done with the friendly shoulder of a mother to pour out your troubles to — you 're reliving something from your past . |
| 11 | Diana could choose to stay within the Royal Family and be allowed a greater measure of freedom . |
| 12 | And of all fighters Hotspur could remember holding at the end of his own sword , this was the bonniest . |
| 13 | Dougal could read meaning into the meaningless , like a priest finding omens in the steaming entrails of a sacrificed animal . |
| 14 | Dougal could have done without the B-movie dialogue . |
| 15 | It is a possibility that AFHQ could have learned of the huge body of Croat troops approaching Austria on 14 May from some source other than the main signals already referred to . |
| 16 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 17 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 18 | A person or persons ( draughtsman , craftsman , or apprentice ) who worked at Leicester could have worked in the west country , but nowhere in the Leicester mosaics is their evidence for work so unaccomplished as that of the Gloucester pavement . |