Example sentences of "could have [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She understood why Johnny had felt saddened when he had learned of their passing , and she smiled briefly as she recalled that she had never found the courage to tell him of the passing of that Empire , too — fearing that such knowledge could have precipitated an apoplectic fit ! |
| 2 | He could have become an Olympic long-jump champion , as he 'd once broken the world record . |
| 3 | The Dons , who yesterday pulled in £2.5m from the sale of full-back Terry Phelan to Manchester City , could have made an instant profit on their newly-signed hitman . |
| 4 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 5 | The study of middle eastern terrorism , Hostage , by Con Coughlin , could have alerted an Arab revenge squad , said Spiro 's brother-in-law . |
| 6 | I could have stayed an interesting union , but the Healey stayed a Healey and the Cobra was an AC . |
| 7 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 8 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 9 | That ‘ agnostic ’ , which sounded fair enough to Mr Kantor , could have carried an explosive charge across the oceans . |
| 10 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 11 | I would get to camp at three , and could have had an early night . |
| 12 | 7.2 Whalebone plaque dated to 1480 plus/minus 80 BP ( see p.122 ) ; however ; the whale could have had an apparent radiocarbon ‘ age ’ at death of several centuries ( MLA 1987.10–5.1 ; OxA-1164 ) . |
| 13 | Neither of these cultures could have provided an effective basis to challenge hegemonic authority in West Ham ; both were effectively foreclosed within dominant ideological discourses . |
| 14 | We do implement such measures where we believe that it is right to do so , but we have opposed the working time directive , for example , because it could have added an extra £5 billion to British industry 's costs . |
| 15 | You could have driven an articulated lorry up the leg . |
| 16 | As the largest single party in the upper chamber , however , the LDP could have commanded an overall majority if it had secured the support of Komeito . |
| 17 | ‘ We could have fought an honourable , Observer-Guardian-style war with the Ludovic Kennedys in charge , but we would have lost it and Britain would have been enslaved , ’ he wrote . |