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

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1 If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’
2 So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities .
3 But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum .
4 If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you .
5 He said that he could not have a girl 's time wasted by taking down statements of that kind .
6 However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child .
7 Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one .
8 Few people would ever own a home if they could not have a mortgage .
9 We could not have a debate in Committee and the House deserves serious answers on this extremely important issue .
10 Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here .
11 When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way .
12 Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man .
13 There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle .
14 Yeah because then you could have that , you could like have a story board for that advert that you thought of .
15 ‘ If we beat Oxford and Plymouth on Saturday , we could still have a chance of automatic promotion .
16 He could always have a relapse later if necessary .
17 You could always have a bit of fun with Bill , people said .
18 T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble .
19 I do n't know if I could ever have a relationship , the way I feel about my body .
20 A belief is indubitable if and only if no one could ever have a reason to doubt it .
21 How far laymen would have disapproved of his behaviour is another matter , for concubinage of a type whereby a married man could also have a relationship with a woman who had a recognised position and whose children might share in the inheritance had been common among Germanic peoples , and may still have existed in England in Cnut 's day .
22 It could also have a bearing on its unusual style — no verbal testimonies from friends and colleagues , no old archive footage , just Van getting royally stoned on the music with some mates .
23 Cantors or animateurs could also have a place in those churches with a thriving musical tradition and they should not be regarded simply as emergency personnel .
24 You could n't have a discussion
25 She could n't have er she could n't have a feather pillow .
26 I could n't have a quarter of it .
27 Could n't have a mortgage .
28 When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ .
29 Oh so he could n't have a smoke ?
30 The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’
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