Example sentences of "could have [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have prepared for his appeal in the New Year by moping in his Kent mansion , but instead the man once hailed as the ‘ Clones Cyclone ’ wants to recapture the thrill of the ring in Britain 's most gruelling motor-sport event . |
| 2 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 4 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 5 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 6 | Her birth , as far as she could see , had been accidental ; no careful well-intended deity could have selected for her her own home . |
| 7 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 8 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 9 | He suspected she could have wished for nothing better than to have him confined to bed and reliant on her care . |
| 10 | We could have looked for something to press it with and pressed it . |
| 11 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |