Example sentences of "could have [verb] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 2 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 3 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 4 | Ironically she rarely used much make-up herself , but right now she could have done with a cover-up stick to hide the dark shadows beneath her eyes and some blusher to conceal at least a little of her pallor . |
| 5 | Her red suit was smart , but too bright a colour for her pale English pink and white skin , her brown hair could have done with a wash and her nails were ragged and bitten . |
| 6 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 7 | ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here . |
| 8 | He could have done with a saw . |
| 9 | How they could have done with a win this afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 11 | We could have done with the masks upstairs at the ‘ Music Journalism ’ gathering , where a group of rock writers were taking themselves — and their , ahem , Art — extremely seriously . |
| 12 | He refrained from ringing Fred up and stored Daisy 's dividend cheques in a drawer without cashing them , although he could have done with the money . |
| 13 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 14 | The price , to a cheetah , of growing larger leg muscles is all the other things that the cheetah could have done with the materials and energy used to make the leg muscles , for instance make more milk for cubs . |
| 15 | Here were many war-time refugees and exiles from every country in europe , with accents you could have cut with a cheese wire . |
| 16 | If the child is also refusing food , the problem could have developed with the parent 's trying to distract the child during feeding . |
| 17 | I remember this sign for when a small boy , I was puzzled as to what Tylees could have to do with the sea . |
| 18 | With regard to indirect discrimination , the EOC conducted a postal survey of all the applicants to the Society in one year to establish whether or not each candidate could have complied with the mobility requirement at the time that they applied for the job . |
| 19 | The doors were fastened with a padlock which a child of five could have picked with a paper clip . |
| 20 | ‘ Being a hijra was the only possibility for me ; there was no other career I could have pursued with the body that was given to me at birth . |
| 21 | Indeed it is difficult to envisage how the adjustable peg system could have coped with the scale of this problem , whereas the system of floating exchange rates did . |
| 22 | The company also stressed that no drainage system could have coped with the amount of rain caused by such a ‘ freak ’ storm . |