Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nestlé Co. could have obtained an injunction restraining the sale of those tins and they required the buyers not to resell them without first removing the labels . |
| 2 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 3 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 4 | You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one . |
| 5 | There was a pause in which you could have heard a pin drop — if you could have heard anything over the machine noise which had so invaded their senses that it had the quality of silence . |
| 6 | Well you could have heard a pin drop . |
| 7 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 8 | Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious . |
| 9 | You could have heard a pin drop . |
| 10 | ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road . |
| 11 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 12 | I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club . |