Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep him from chasing younger birds — if he could 've summoned up the energy . |
| 2 | Er but what I become , I thought you might become more confrontational but you did n't so so you dug a hole for yourself that you could 've dug out of you sat in there but I think you handled that quite well , but there are people like me out there who think they know it all and will have a go at you . |
| 3 | Later , in the boat and shouting again because of the whoosh of water behind them as well as the noise of the engine , Tucker told her , ‘ We could 've gone round by road but this way you get a better feel . |
| 4 | I could 've walked off with one to eleven there . |
| 5 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 6 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |
| 7 | Oh you could 've carried on . |
| 8 | You should 've come and knocked for me cos you could 've come in and played computer and everything . |
| 9 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 10 | Somebody could 've slipped in then without me noticing . ’ |
| 11 | Once again he wished he could 've listened in . |
| 12 | The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through |
| 13 | but I think it 'd be a game that one could become absorbed in . |
| 14 | The cows I could see grazed on and on , and I was trying to remember if I had ever seen an ox grazing instead of working . |
| 15 | They could have applied up to five years . |
| 16 | So the chalk could have absorbed up the grease . |
| 17 | He could have kicked around forever in the States , and if he had never come here he might have never gotten anywhere . |
| 18 | A COMPUTER blip could have messed up the statements of millions of credit card customers , it was revealed last night . |
| 19 | I could have messed about to get the price under 20m to make them legit. teans but I could n't be arsed ! |
| 20 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 21 | At one time you could have travelled up the Aspe valley by railway , and entered Spain through a tunnel five miles long under the final ridge . |
| 22 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 23 | The huge padlock seemed oddly out of place for anyone could have broken in if they had wished . |
| 24 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 25 | He could have called out from where he stood but he did not . |
| 26 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
| 27 | A pathologist 's report claims he could have survived up to half an hour after the wound was inflicted . |
| 28 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |
| 29 | EIGHT thousand pigeons which vanished during a 300-mile race could have ended up as pie fillings . |
| 30 | They could have ended up in Greenland . ’ |