Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the marked expansion in the French kingdom 's territorial size between 1204 and 1259 could not fail to have an impact upon such claims to autonomy and independence . |
| 2 | South America could easily have had a marsupial anteater , alongside its marsupial sabre-tooth " tiger " , but as it happens the anteater trade was early filled by placental mammals instead . |
| 3 | Back in the late 1940s , early 1950s , I remember my fishing mentor , the late Tom Kelly , Edinburgh , describing these wonderful , strange fish which displayed all the colours of the rainbow when they were caught ; and I could hardly wait to have a go . |
| 4 | Arsenal could also have had a penalty when Campbell went crashing down as Forrest challenged him in the box for a Wright through-pass , but the referee dismissed their claims . |
| 5 | Jessamy prized her privacy far too much , she could n't bear to have a pack of journalists prying into every corner of her life . |
| 6 | When I took these two guitars into the studio to try them out , over the course of the first hour everyone and their cat called in and could n't resist having a go . |
| 7 | Even the Head of the School of Languages , Leisure and Tourism could n't resist having a go on the roller boller . |
| 8 | I hope you do n't mind — I could n't resist having a bath . ’ |
| 9 | Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out . |
| 10 | ‘ You could n't have had a golf course made for a man 's game more than that golf course for John Daly , ’ observed the man who has won more Masters than anyone , six all told and now playing his 34th in succession . |
| 11 | ' They could n't have had an accident , could they ? ’ asked Karen . |
| 12 | How many people of the , how many of you here today , could actually pay for your home out of your income , if you waited until you have sufficient income to pay for your home in its entirety , the bulk of the people in this room , even though there are , yes , some rich farmers , still could n't afford to have a home . |
| 13 | Just maybe Cunt could nt handle having a book which had 2 shady blokes in silhouette on it … not avant garde or rimbaut ( sp ? ) enuff ? |
| 14 | It 's only now that I feel that I could actually decide to have a relationship which is specifically going to be monogamous , which is a really big change for me … that makes me think immediately of AIDS but I 'm not sure . |