Example sentences of "could have [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 2 | His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area . |
| 3 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 4 | oh really because it would have been nice if you could have put something in the corpus about the prisoners who help with the corpus actually |
| 5 | He could have got one from the kitchen , but I expect he 'd locked up after he 'd brought the supper up . ’ |
| 6 | However , it seemed that each sex could have learnt something from the other on this occasion ; by the end of the day , the beautifully laid-out nursery , ready to provide the young arrivals with constructive play activities , was reduced to utter chaos from the tidal force of juvenile anarchy . |