Example sentences of "could have [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
2 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
3 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
4 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
5 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
6 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
7 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
8 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
9 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
10 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
14 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
15 | Could have done it from the front . |
16 | I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’ |
17 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
18 | Even if he had thought that his parents were still there — which I found hard to believe — he could have visited them in the morning . |
19 | any , any other sort of mouse I could have brought me mouse with me and we could have run it off the serial port erm it 's a pain that Amstrad mouse . |
20 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
21 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
22 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
23 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
24 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
25 | The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance … |
26 | His bomb would have caused enormous damage and more importantly , could have killed anyone in the area . |
27 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
28 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
29 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
30 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |