Example sentences of "could have [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashdown could have done the same . |
| 2 | We could have done the same with Benjamin . |
| 3 | I wished she could have done the same for me . |
| 4 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |
| 5 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 6 | Had Koons asked for permission to use the photo , and Rogers had refused , Prutzman said , ‘ Koons could have made the same point about banality with any number of other images . |
| 7 | ‘ There was no loss to the stores but it could have caused a few problems . ’ |
| 8 | Kafka could have felt no more trepidation at that time than I , though I covered my nervousness by giggling at Maté 's latest joke . |
| 9 | Leeds were naive in defence , provided no cover , and could have conceded a few more ( for the record though , Fairclough played very well and made some very timely interceptions ) . |
| 10 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 11 | The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends . |
| 12 | I mean , you could have asked the same about us , on a lot of things . |
| 13 | Bolton 's could have had a few more goals … thankfully Reece and his defence managed to stop the rot … |
| 14 | Bolton 's could have had a few more goals … thankfully Reece and his defence managed to stop the rot … |
| 15 | ‘ He could have had the same yesterday . ’ |
| 16 | Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land . |
| 17 | Thus it came about that if you walked into a bar in Babylon around 2000 B.C. you could have sampled no fewer than 16 different beers . |
| 18 | We started by sending the Minister to a Desert Island , with just 8 records and 2 books ( come 19th May , we could have spared a few more ) . |
| 19 | Blackburn could have offered the same argument . |
| 20 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |