Example sentences of "could have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could 've worn a red jersey that would 've been it . |
| 2 | If only she could have waved a magic wand to turn the fat girl into a raving beauty . |
| 3 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 4 | There is no precipice except in the painting ( though no doubt Junge could have painted the downward view if asked ) and Deborah Kerr has to act shock/horror , which she is perfectly capable of doing , and does splendidly . |
| 5 | Had it continued , however , the rebel university could have become a rival establishment to both Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 6 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 7 | I could have done that or I could have done the instrumental album . |
| 8 | But the soldiers thought it was great altogether to be near to Tara , and began to talk about getting up a party to go along and take a look , because would n't it be the finest old inspiration a man could have to see the Bright Palace again . |
| 9 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 10 | If the child in the cradle on whom Carabosse lays her curse after the other fairy godmothers have given her everything that makes a girl lovable could have understood the ordinary life she was forfeiting , she would have renounced their fairy boons ; given the choice , Caterina would have rejected her charms too , in order to be closer to her sister , to be more like Rosa . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 12 | I could have recorded the mysterious Mr Archer 's phone calls and had them directed to the office while I was there . |
| 13 | I thought the 238S could have handled the top end slightly better ; the lead guitar suffered from lack of cut because of the DBX noise reduction , but without it there was too much tape hiss to produce any acceptable recording . |
| 14 | You could have built a substantial career . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Goldring said Bradley was transferred to a hospital in Nottingham where doctors found it difficult to understand how such a young child could have suffered a cardiac arrest . |
| 16 | Few voters could have obtained a real grasp of the issues at stake and hardly any would have been in a position to assess the leadership qualities of the candidates on offer . |
| 17 | They are the people who can refer clients on to solicitors and it is highly likely that the ‘ Advisory Liaison Service ’ and the proposed liaison officers could have played a significant part in making and fostering those contacts . |
| 18 | And that delay meant Mrs Fraser had arrived in the Republic of Ireland , when prompt action could have prevented the whole mess . |
| 19 | With Oveissi we could have ended the whole thing . |
| 20 | Perhaps the police had n't searched in there ; if not , they could have missed a vital clue after all . |
| 21 | Any of them could have hidden a secret staircase . |
| 22 | This volcanic cloud could have warmed the upper atmosphere in the tropical latitudes and blotted out the differences in temperature between surface and upper air that when combined with the effects of the earth 's rotation , cause the trade winds . |
| 23 | Although the Poles could have exercised a military option in the north just as they had done in Silesia , by this time their involvement in a war against the infant Soviet state , over territories and borders in the eastern provinces , made this a logistical impossibility . |
| 24 | That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP . |
| 25 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 26 | I could have made a real fortune becoming Mr Vietnam , I could have hit the lecture circuit , I could have spun it out into a fabulous little industry , but that 's not interesting . |
| 27 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 28 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 29 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
| 30 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |