Example sentences of "could have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively the committee could have served as a scapegoat if Pomgol activities had failed completely . |
| 2 | The butcher — a distinguished-looking man who could have served as a model for Mr Micawber and had , also , his turn of phrase . |
| 3 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 4 | Without this rescue , GPA could have landed in the hands of examiners under Irish law ( a tougher version of America 's chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings ) . |
| 5 | Pity it was n't in the national newspapers because my lawyer said I could have retired on the proceeds . |
| 6 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 7 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 8 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 9 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You could have done with a couple of stitches here . |
| 14 | He could have done with a saw . |
| 15 | How they could have done with a win this afternoon . |
| 16 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , one could have done without the editors ' patriotic digs at Australian journalists who are certainly no more chauvinist than British fans with typewriters ( or indeed television cameras ) . |
| 22 | Could have done without the lip I got from the scouse stallholders though ( sample : ‘ The League Title cost a fortune in them days … ’ ) . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’ |
| 24 | ( 5 ) A legal estate may subsist concurrently with or subject to any other legal estate in the same land in like manner as it could have done before the commencement of this Act . |
| 25 | Again there 's a lot of other evidence that Freud does n't mention and he could have done like the Ark . |
| 26 | People say having a baby ruins your life , and talk about what you could have done in a job and that . |
| 27 | Even some Right-wing opposition politicians reckoned it was the best Mr Mitterrand could have done in the circumstances . |
| 28 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 29 | Heyerdahl , five companions and a sulky parrot had drifted 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft to prove Heyerdahl 's theory that South American people could have travelled across the Pacific to become the ancestors of the Polynesian islanders . |
| 30 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |