Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie Spence shot a last round 60 to win the Canon European Masters , then heard that someone has said he could have smashed the course record with a 58 — and had blown it ! |
| 2 | By doing so , the publisher has marred what could have been an excellent publication , but , equally important . |
| 3 | Now a team at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany , working for Prof Dieter Oesterhelt , has found they could harness a salt-loving bacterium , called halobacterium , to mass produce receptors . |
| 4 | Durance appealed to Rain : ‘ Can you believe a woman I 'd taught everything could speak to me like that ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten you could speak . |
| 6 | They 'd decided they could tell me , they could trust me . |
| 7 | They 'd decided they could use the lunch break on changeover day to review the first part of the week and plan the second , so they would actually be working more hours than most . |
| 8 | Maggie scrounged what food she could , and when Sarah dipped a crust of bread in the cabbage soup she 'd made she could see the cracks in the bottom of the dish through the thin liquid . |
| 9 | It was only hours since he 'd said she could stay . |
| 10 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 11 | She 'd thought she could cope with her fears . |
| 12 | Then when I 'd proved I could do that really well , horrible and moronic as it was , I let myself off and got a better job nearer my heart 's desire . " |
| 13 | ‘ I felt that if we 'd signed he could have given us just that little bit extra up front which would have enabled us to win the title , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 14 | If we 'd lost we could have gone bottom of the table and that would have been disastrous for a club like Everton . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if I 'd lost I could have gone home quicky . ’ |
| 16 | You could 've used you could 've used Little Doris |
| 17 | I would 've thought they could 've like somebody with an older text , they could 've took the old one out and shoved one of these back into it . |
| 18 | We must have parked we could have parked . |
| 19 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 20 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 21 | for three hours with a sur as the surgeon battled to save his life well I 'd have thought they could have plugged wounds with something other than a finger ! |
| 22 | Well I think , I would have thought they could have done it a bit quicker , the bathroom , if they wanted to . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , at my age I would have thought one could retire when one felt so inclined , without adverse comment . |
| 24 | According to her she was convinced that Francis would inherit and dispose of the business , but she might have thought she could do a deal with Beryl . |
| 25 | I 'd have thought you could do better than that , Miss Holbrook . |
| 26 | They must have thought you could do it . |
| 27 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 28 | I would have thought you could control your staff 's tongues rather more efficiently , Matron . ’ |
| 29 | You 're unemployed I would n't have thought you could 've stood a hundred and fifty , two hundred pounds withdrawal . |
| 30 | ‘ I should have thought you could guess that quite easily as well … ’ |