Example sentences of "could have [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could have searched the seas to see if Bartholomew had survived . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This is the only possible way that the students could have answered the questions to agree with the information given . |
| 4 | A judge allowed the appeal after a vet told the court that whipping could have encouraged the horse to free itself . |
| 5 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With a secure nest under Rank , and a distribution deal through Universal in the US , there was little contact with the marketplace , which could have driven the studio to search out new styles and new areas of subject matter . |
| 12 | The measure of such damages should be calculated by assessing the amount that a court could have ordered the husband to pay to the wife under the statutory provisions . |
| 13 | Where the constable is not authorised the defendant could have allowed the constable to carry out the inspection . |
| 14 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |
| 15 | At least , it was felt by many , the Government could have used the occasion to open up new options ( to be narrowed again perhaps after the French referendum ) . |
| 16 | Shildon said : ‘ If MacQuillan had lived , Eliot could have used the information to persuade people to change their minds about letting him have a free hand with the Post . |