Example sentences of "they could have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosemary said yesterday : ‘ They were all adults in that car and any one of them could have stopped that train of events with one word . |
| 2 | They should be er both of them could have put that all in black . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh yes , they could have done that . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think they could have done any more than they did . |
| 5 | They could have rutted each other stupid on the Raistrick . |
| 6 | I think they could have kept that money for that purpose what they want now , not to throw it across there . |
| 7 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They could have taken that book from you by force , ’ Iain suggested . |
| 9 | If they had really wished to do so , they could have found enough constituencies where Labour was a bad third and where the candidate him- or herself was willing to step down just before nominations closed . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish they could have left this alone till Christmas was over , ’ she whispered to Antony . |
| 11 | I have dealt with reasonably intelligent people who have discovered that they could have claimed more money . |
| 12 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 13 | Mike , their son-in-law , then suggested that as that was two thousand years ago , ‘ they could have had another fifteen hundred by now ’ and , sensing his in-laws ' disapproval , continued ‘ unless they 're on the pill ’ . |