Example sentences of "could have [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet Thomas , 17 , who made a scoring debut as a substitute last week , could have to settle for a place on the bench again as Hearts look to John Robert- son and Ian Ferguson to shoulder the responsibility in attack . |
| 32 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 33 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 34 | ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says . |
| 35 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 36 | His shiny black coat could have come from a labrador and there was a suggestion of terrier in the pointed nose and priced ears , but the long string-like tail and the knock-kneed fore limbs baffled me . |
| 37 | We disembark , walking down the rusting ramp over white cockleshell sand and water so clear it could have come from a tap . |
| 38 | My feet were secured by a length of electric cable which could have come from a table lamp . |
| 39 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 40 | Then his mouth found hers again and the rest of the world could have disappeared without a trace without either of them being aware of it . |
| 41 | The doors were fastened with a padlock which a child of five could have picked with a paper clip . |
| 42 | Only a peacock or a P.T. instructor could have walked round a camp in the way he admired . |
| 43 | In a crisis it could have doubled as a draught excluder or , if the pub got rough , as a cosh . |
| 44 | Morrison only completed some light running in the morning session at the army camp on a pitch which could have doubled as a minefield such were the undulations and mini-lagoons lying in wait for the unsuspecting . |
| 45 | Up to 30 victims could have died in a basement community centre directly below where the jumbo jet struck . |
| 46 | Although he was obviously placed carefully on to the sofa , the freshly pomaded hair is awry and could have benefited from a comb prior to being photographed . |
| 47 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |