Example sentences of "could have [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he could have done with a general chapter on the French State , which would have placed Diderot more firmly in his times and made clearer the difficulties he encountered . |
| 2 | The little devils could have done with a firm hand ! ’ |
| 3 | Well we had er the business was quite good er we had er we could do , of course at the end of the war , we could have done with an awful lot more cars , but we could n't get them . |
| 4 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 5 | It could have led to a certain amount of resentment , particularly when the material benefits flowed in for Hannah . |
| 6 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 7 | The split could have gone in a different direction with different characterizations and emphases within the overall framework . |
| 8 | It could have turned into an ugly ruck pretty quickly . |
| 9 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 10 | They could have lived on a tropic isle . |
| 11 | Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level . |
| 12 | It is possible that , over time , the simple loss of the left systemic arch in the crocodilian heart could have resulted in an avian double-pump which would have left the dinosaur ‘ free to evolve ’ tachymetabolism . |
| 13 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 14 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 15 | 6d. , less than she could have expected from a modern royalty . |
| 16 | Barry Trevaskis , who had six stitches put in a horrible wound under his left eye after being stamped on in a ruck , might not agree that the Soviets lacked meanness , but had their half-backs Chapman and Rule not missed six penalties between them , Cornwall could have brought off an unexpected win . |
| 17 | The latter clause , however , had had the approval of negotiating bodies representing both potato merchants and farmers ; no blame for the infection of the seed potatoes was attributable to either side ; and , further , the buyers , if they had so wished , could have bought at a small extra cost , seed potatoes certified by inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 18 | Teas believes that AIDS could have started with a Haitian eating infected pork . |
| 19 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |