Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said there was nothing they could have done to avoid the accident.Both men were extremely experienced . |
| 2 | ‘ Surely the business community on Merseyside could have rallied to raise the cash . ’ |
| 3 | Who could have dared to blot the landscape so ? |
| 4 | Echo-sounding by bats is just one of the thousands of examples that I could have chosen to make the point about good design . |
| 5 | They could have afforded to buy the stuff if they had wanted to — their parents were all loaded — but school was so boring , it was the only way to liven things up . |
| 6 | The evidence did not justify the judge 's conclusion that no competent valuer could have failed to spot the potential of the two oils . |
| 7 | Second , if volatiles were acquired after accretion , from the impacts of volatile-rich bodies , then Mercury and the Moon could have failed to capture the volatiles made available in this way . |
| 8 | She could have tried to climb the hills , and fallen ! |
| 9 | We could have tried to address the problem without all this talk of more Government cash , more this , more that , more the other . |
| 10 | Suzanne Greenhill , 20 , had been blindfolded — depriving her of the last sense she could have used to identify the attacker — and her underwear had been stuffed in her mouth . |