Example sentences of "could have [verb] the [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could have searched the seas to see if Bartholomew had survived . ’ |
| 2 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | In dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal , Mr Justice Rattee said that the taxpayer could have made the returns accompanied by an indication that there were matters still outstanding which might affect the contents of the returns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could have kept the lip zippered . |
| 7 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 8 | This is the only possible way that the students could have answered the questions to agree with the information given . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 11 | The result stood because the referee , after consulting his linesmen , decided that Scott could have seen the ball coming at him . |
| 12 | A judge allowed the appeal after a vet told the court that whipping could have encouraged the horse to free itself . |
| 13 | Could have had the whole place up in flames . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | A reshaped back four took time to settle and Swindon could have had the points wrapped up inside half hour . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | She could have sworn the light had been yellow — pure yellow . |
| 20 | We could have got the handwriting analysed , ’ he said sceptically . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He did have an alternative , he could have let the pound drop lower . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Where the constable is not authorised the defendant could have allowed the constable to carry out the inspection . |
| 27 | Gabriel was galled with shame , though of course he could have expected the Devil to betray him . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |