Example sentences of "could have [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 2 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 3 | It was extraordinary that lips so tight could produce any sound , that Lorrimer 's voice , high and distorted , could have forced itself through the vocal cords without splitting them . |
| 4 | ‘ We could have re-established ourselves as the football channel . |
| 5 | The eagle was so evidently , so ferociously beautiful ; one would have thought that it could have impressed itself upon the most unwilling beholder . |