Example sentences of "could have [verb] such [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some find her inconsistencies maddening , failing to understand how a right-on feminist could have done such a thing as using Mandy Smith in her show at the very height of the tabloid fuss over Smith 's under-age relationship with Bill Wyman . |
| 2 | Nobody believed Philip could have done such a thing as marry one of the Ryan girls for love . |
| 3 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |
| 4 | She drove fearlessly up a narrow dirt-track road that wound steeply between scented pine trees because she was still mad that Fernando could have done such a thing . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't believe that a policeman could have said such a thing . |
| 6 | Again , in that head-state , I could feel anger that I could have made such a mistake , and a determination it would n't happen again . |
| 7 | Nothing in Tristram 's letter could have provoked such a response . |
| 8 | ‘ To see if there were any sharp edges or protrusions that could have caused such a head wound ? ’ |
| 9 | Years later this lady of character was to write a rather moving piece entitled ‘ The Love Song of T. S. Eliot ’ secretary ( Confrontation , Long Island University , Winter 1975 ) ; and from what Eliot said once , though half-jocularly , when he and his wife and I were having a meal together , there was more than one secretary who could have composed such a Love Song , or at least who had the necessarily incentive or excuse , I vaguely recall the lady as of ample build and very cheerful , so she was able to put good face on her sad plight . |
| 10 | Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch . |
| 11 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 12 | The hand that copied the music was certainly of thoroughly professional quality , but it is not impossible that any of the named persons could have acquired such a hand , or , indeed , been a professional copyist . |
| 13 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 14 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 15 | A more plausible interpretation , both less prescient and less duplicitous , would suggest that , while de Gaulle recognized the possibility of independence — and one might well wonder how , in the midst of global decolonization , he could have avoided such a recognition — he was by no means certain that this was the only possible outcome in Algeria . |