Example sentences of "could [verb] [verb] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You could 've heard a critic smile !
2 Modem linkage for Dawyck will be needed within the next five years , and it may be that at that point we could decide to install a multiplexor to deal with all of our external computer links — use of local EUCS services , JANET , PSS , Royline and others .
3 If this is not practical , you could try cooking a chicken to eat cold over several days ; but once it is cooked , divide it up into the meal portions you require , and place them in the freezer or refrigerator as appropriate .
4 A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful .
5 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 .
6 You could have heard a pin drop if anyone in the room had dropped one .
7 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 .
8 Well you could have heard a pin drop .
9 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 .
10 Suddenly you could have heard a pin drop , which is enough to make anyone feel self-conscious .
11 You could have heard a pin drop .
12 ‘ You could have heard a pin drop , ’ recalls Mr Rusby , of Linden Road .
13 In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor .
14 I could have had a contract to compare favourably with any offered to anyone at the club .
15 Its aim was to provide a convivial meeting place where the enlightened could help formulate a programme to teach the uninitiated the nature of the enemy which was undermining the country .
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