Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [prep] the [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I could have done with the two hundred and thirty quid though |
| 7 | Dougal could have done without the B-movie dialogue . |
| 8 | In particular , she could have done without the bad jokes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This theory is quite untrue , as Mr Hughes could have discovered from the simplest textbook . |
| 12 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At least two other specific developments could have contributed to the present sea-bird problem . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The death sentence is the best sentence a court of law could have imposed under the present circumstances . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 22 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |
| 23 | The way information zoomed round Shellerton , anyone theoretically could have heard of the lost camera and the way to find it . |
| 24 | She yawned and stretched ; she wished her siesta could have lasted until the following morning — no , the following week . |
| 25 | Some thought Labour would have had its ideal leader , a courageous genius in party management , and with a streak of inspiration in philosophy , if it could have bred from the two of them . |
| 26 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I read the Medau News , ‘ she says , ‘ I am completely overwhelmed with admiration at the way my Medau colleagues have created a Medau world in this country — far beyond any pipe dreams Molly and I could have had in the early years of struggle . |
| 28 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 29 | He would have gone to her no matter what lure you could have put in the other scale . |
| 30 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |