Example sentences of "could have [verb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could 've spotted Jack going ‘ walkabout ’ , you mean . ’ |
| 2 | Shildon said legality hardly mattered , nothing could have prevented MacQuillan switching the paper from one of his pockets to another . |
| 3 | If anything could have made Charles feel sicker , it was Bernard 's bonhomie . |
| 4 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |
| 5 | Building firm G Rhodes and Son , who put it in place , said the problem could have resulted from the shed 's location below a bank which could have caused winds to form a vacuum behind it , pulling the roof off . |
| 6 | Sir Hal alleged that Sir Patrick urged him not to produce documents which could have cleared businessmen accused of illegally exporting weapons . |
| 7 | It was n't that I minded Fenella and I could have had fun doing a wind-up on her parents . |
| 8 | So he was gon na ask if they got in late because they could have had time to get it repaired . |
| 9 | I was sure that no one could have had time to cross the gravel . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe he could have had Glastonbury holding the dynamite , ’ said Amiss . |
| 11 | Defeat could have left Airdrie isolated at the bottom but they displayed no fear in the face of a tepid Falkirk performance . |
| 12 | He could have let others know where we were going without realising it . |
| 13 | Yes , I have heard of her , ’ Belinda murmured , wondering painfully all over again how she could have let Tom capture her heart . |
| 14 | Who was , when Molly was telling me about Jason , when Jason sa , I could have murdered Ryan doing that ! |
| 15 | He returned to the chateau , furious with himself that he could have allowed people to live in this way . |
| 16 | There is no reason to think that disturbance was any greater in glacial times , though there was a cooling and 10–20% less precipitation in the monsoon rains that could have allowed savannas to take over in what are today ecotonal areas . |
| 17 | Good business planning could have helped Darlington win its bid for a body scanner , a senior hospital official said this week . |
| 18 | However , the investor who had the luck or foresight to predict the fall could have bought November puts with an exercise price of 260p for 10p and sold them for 25p making a gross profit of 150 per cent . |
| 19 | From the maturation angle , reservoirs within the Devonian section in the hanging wall could have preserved gas generated in older rocks during the Palaeozoic , though it would stand a poor chance of avoiding dispersal during either the Late Caledonian or Variscan orogenies . |
| 20 | He could have used exports to get the economy going with a substantial reduction in the exchange rate and greater devaluation . |