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

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1 I could 've made a fortune flogging beads to hippies . ’
2 ‘ Whoever it was could have made a mistake over the night ; I was out at about that time on Saturday night . ’
3 ‘ Well , I could have made a mistake . ’
4 ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now .
5 A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful .
6 He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair .
7 Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune .
8 All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo .
9 Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height .
10 ‘ But what annoyed us most is Downey could have made a phone call to us .
11 When we look when we look upwards in eclipse what you can actually see if if you can imagine that 's a circular quite like an if I was really together I could have made a circular
12 For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs .
13 They 're both — were both — well over twenty-one , and they could have made a deal which essentially bought out Angela 's life interest for a capital sum and then Miss Huntley would have got the rest . ’
14 . I could have made a job
15 If you have not been adequately consulted , and a tribunal is satisfied that consultation could have made a difference to the redundancy decision , there is a good chance that you will succeed in an unfair dismissal claim and be entitled to compensation .
16 Mr Prescott said Transport Secretary John MacGregor could have made a Commons statement today but claimed Mr MacGregor ‘ was not prepared to cancel his engagements in Scotland ’ .
17 The bowlers , though , did well in favourable conditions and , if they had been better supported at slip , could have made a match of it .
18 Is it not a fact that if the right Hon. Gentleman was dissatisfied with the time that would be available by way of a normal parliamentary answer , he could have opted as any Minister , with your permission , Mr. Speaker , to take that question at the end of Question time and then face proper intensive questions , or he could have made a statement ?
19 If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living .
20 However had the United States regarded the joining of a nuclear free zone agreement as incompatible with the Pacific Security Treaty it could have made a claim of material breach and suspended the first agreement with respect to New Zealand .
21 I wish someone had told me he was vegetarian : I could have made an omelette .
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