Example sentences of "could have [verb] [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 2 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 3 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 4 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | In other words , we identify a particular event as the cause because we know how it could have made the effect happen , not because we know it happened before the effect . |
| 6 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 7 | I could have kept the lip zippered . |
| 8 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 9 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 12 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 13 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 14 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 15 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 16 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 17 | THERE is no competition attached to the following remarks , mainly because it would be easy enough to cheat , but I would be glad to have any suggestions about the question that could have received the answer quoted . |
| 18 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 19 | The result stood because the referee , after consulting his linesmen , decided that Scott could have seen the ball coming at him . |
| 20 | A judge allowed the appeal after a vet told the court that whipping could have encouraged the horse to free itself . |
| 21 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 22 | Could have had the whole place up in flames . ’ |
| 23 | Maybe I could have had the hotel ring the British Embassy in Lima , but I was too exhausted , physically and mentally — particularly mentally — to face all the complications . |
| 24 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 25 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 26 | ‘ It is therefore difficult to know what policy objective could have prompted the legislature to confine entitlement to claim compensation to post-natal injuries in a case where the fatality has been caused by the negligence of a third party . ’ |
| 27 | She could have sworn the light had been yellow — pure yellow . |
| 28 | We could have got the handwriting analysed , ’ he said sceptically . |
| 29 | ‘ Like I say ; I could have got the baby-sitter to help me with him , but she 's just a skelf … not our regular girl . |
| 30 | This team could have persuaded the Pope to confess that Judas Iscariot had been framed by George Washington , and that Jesus H. Christ had let Huey , Dewey and Louie take the rap for the St Valentine 's Day Massacre . |