Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 2 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At her side , introducing her to people , encouraging her to elaborate on some of her ideas for the future , Luke was urbane , expressing only suave approval , and no one could have guessed at the personal contempt he felt for her , not a hint of it — or anything else personal either — allowed to show through his sophisticated public manner . |
| 5 | I think he could have done with a general chapter on the French State , which would have placed Diderot more firmly in his times and made clearer the difficulties he encountered . |
| 6 | The little devils could have done with a firm hand ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 9 | Dougal could have done without the B-movie dialogue . |
| 10 | In particular , she could have done without the bad jokes . |
| 11 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 12 | This could , however , suggest too late a date for the work at Trier ( for it is very unlikely to have been after 325 ) , indeed , Parlasca ( 1975 , 77 ) thinks the mosaicist could have travelled in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 14 | Mustelids very like modern stoats and weasels are the most common carnivores at Westbury ( apart from the cave bear which was probably only partly carnivorous anyway ) and they could have contributed to the small mammal faunas at Westbury . |
| 15 | At least two other specific developments could have contributed to the present sea-bird problem . |
| 16 | The report suggested that this was the reverse of the settings which would be expected and that this could have contributed to the homing errors . |
| 17 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 18 | The death sentence is the best sentence a court of law could have imposed under the present circumstances . |
| 19 | However , it is difficult to believe that sufficient quantities of suitable substances could have appeared at the Cytherean surface to mop up anywhere near the amount of oxygen that would be liberated from an Earth-like quantity of water . |
| 20 | This was important to the early Christians because they faced the charges that Jesus was not really dead when he was taken down from the cross and that , even if he was , the women could have gone to the wrong tomb on the Sunday morning . |
| 21 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 22 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It could have turned into an ugly ruck pretty quickly . |
| 25 | There was an element of choice in Sukarno 's arrest ; he could have escaped into the surrounding countryside , but he awaited capture , perhaps calculating that in arresting him the Dutch were outraging international opinion . |
| 26 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 27 | They could have lived on a tropic isle . |
| 28 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 29 | The way information zoomed round Shellerton , anyone theoretically could have heard of the lost camera and the way to find it . |
| 30 | She yawned and stretched ; she wished her siesta could have lasted until the following morning — no , the following week . |