Example sentences of "could have [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if you 'd spared a few minutes , you could 've become part of Gillian Wearing 's extensive collection of personalised banners . |
| 2 | I reckon Wilko could 've screwed gobber Ferguson for 2 million for Cantona . |
| 3 | ‘ Could 've spotted Jack going ‘ walkabout ’ , you mean . ’ |
| 4 | I could 've taken offence at that . |
| 5 | You could 've taken Oliver |
| 6 | She could 've used Switch card but they had n't got one of them neither . |
| 7 | We were both in the upper IQ bracket ; we could 've used channels , pulled strings , bypassed the system . |
| 8 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 9 | Had to be paid , it ca n't be paid by the twenty eighth it 's er you know well if I could 've got hold of David or er , Andrew , I was gon na give Andrew a right bollocking for just pushing it in and he should 've sent it to er , Michael , Michael 's just got it shoved in front of his nose a in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | " You could 've had Harry without any competition at all , if you 'd so much as bent your little finger . |
| 11 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |
| 12 | I was born in a barn , never knew my father , but was a very goodlooking baby — I could 've won prizes . |
| 13 | Party candidates privately admit that regular meetings could have jeopardised Labour 's chances . |
| 14 | Ilya Ehrenburg knew Modi better than most ; he said , ‘ Of course he could have painted portraits that might have pleased the critics and buyers … |
| 15 | If a meeting with that strange character was important , the usurper could have summoned Dunbar to himself , not had to ride eighty miles to see him . |
| 16 | that they could have summoned help or anything else . |
| 17 | Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’ |
| 18 | But nothing could have prepared Gould for the transformation he witnessed on the journey back to Yarrundi from Maitland . |
| 19 | However , if they had been granted representation proportionate to their minute share of those votes , four or five of their candidates could have become MdBs : the exclusion clause served to prevent that . |
| 20 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 21 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 22 | He could have raised objections to Father Kipling 's arguments — ; but then he could have raised objections to his objections . |
| 23 | He could have raised objections to Father Kipling 's arguments — ; but then he could have raised objections to his objections . |
| 24 | Nor was there any centralised political authority in Ireland itself — a ‘ strong man ’ , for example , who could have done Rome 's work for her . |
| 25 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 26 | So you could have done research of er very clever nature in his back room basically ? |
| 27 | I could have understood Prince Charles watching something about the environment , but not that . |
| 28 | And boss Bassett blasted : ‘ Hirst 's dreadful foul could have broken Tom 's leg . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He could have broken Myler 's ribs , it was a blatant foul . ’ |
| 30 | Nobody could have called Katharine Hepburn , Ingrid Bergman , Deborah Kerr or Vivien Leigh ‘ sex objects ’ . |