Example sentences of "have [verb] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 2 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |
| 3 | Jenny had put Ted quite out of her mind and was threshing over problems and questions she would not have believed could have existed a week ago . |
| 4 | But I knew that the sounds I had heard could have nothing to do with a servant 's dream . |
| 5 | I wondered if perhaps the letters Mrs Connon had received could have been associated with phone-calls as well . ’ |
| 6 | The way this thing added together at the moment , the five centuries Lucille had earned could get all swallowed up in funeral expenses . |
| 7 | Certainly , by the 1740s , the Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus found it incredible that the fifty-six hundred species he had named could have been crammed into the elaborate vessels designed by biblical literalists . |
| 8 | The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me . |
| 9 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 10 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 11 | Every nerve had been strained in the effort to prompt Lou 's memory but what she had learned could do little to prove Barney 's innocence . |
| 12 | What he had to say could wait until morning . |
| 13 | In the Garden : Drawing the line at great design : Anna Pavord delves into a book that reveals the gardens architects have imagined could accompany their creations |
| 14 | ‘ But you mentioned poisons , Hugh , ’ he added calmly , ‘ and all the plants I have mentioned could kill a man , choke out his life like a breeze snuffs out a candle . ’ |