Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in life no one could have called him dull-eyed or sharp-faced . |
| 2 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 3 | ‘ I could have sent him some of my wages . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 5 | Yet the bowler could have had him three times , two sixes just clearing the fielder and a top edge over the wicket-keeper falling harmlessly . |
| 6 | Had positions been reversed , Fedorov could have flogged him senseless within seconds . |