Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The building could have gone up any minute , ’ said police . |
| 2 | From the same shop he could have picked up enough straps and buckles and ties to restrain King Kong . |
| 3 | I 'd like confirmation that he 's as crippled as he appears to be , because , much as I 'd like to , I can think of no way in which a man in his apparent condition could have pulled off this murder . ’ |
| 4 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 5 | He would admit , when brought to it , that the bulldog policies of this Niccolò had achieved what he himself , had he cared , could have brought about several years ago , with some small application . |
| 6 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |