Example sentences of "could have [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 2 | I was n't very happy with my legal representation ; in fact , I think I could have done a better job myself . |
| 3 | Yep The Don was crap — I could have done a better job . |
| 4 | No-one can argue against or overstate what Sgt Wilko has done in this area , that 's why I believe no-one around could have done a better job , and why he is the best man for the future too . |
| 5 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 6 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 7 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 9 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 10 | And it could have blown a good distance in last night 's gale . |
| 11 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 12 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 13 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 14 | And the victim could have chosen a better place to voice throaty communist sentiments . |