Example sentences of "could have [verb] [noun sg] " 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 | I could 've taken offence at that . |
| 4 | She could 've used Switch card but they had n't got one of them neither . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Party candidates privately admit that regular meetings could have jeopardised Labour 's chances . |
| 7 | that they could have summoned help or anything else . |
| 8 | Then ye could have prepared yersel' . ’ |
| 9 | Of course you could have become Lord Mayor then if you 'd been an alderman ? |
| 10 | So you could have done research of er very clever nature in his back room basically ? |
| 11 | Michael Sandusky has argued that United States troops could have assumed control of the greater part of Korea had Korea been identified as a priority and had MacArthur been willing to modify his decision to concentrate American forces in Japan prior to the official surrender on 2 September at the ceremony planned by MacArthur . |
| 12 | The earliest date at which these four could have formed part of an ‘ organised backlash ’ would have been at least eighteen months after what Hall et al. |
| 13 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 14 | Of course , no foreign central bank was compelled to hold a single additional dollar — indeed , they could have unloaded part of their existing holdings . |
| 15 | If Labour had accepted PR , and the possibility of an agreement with the Liberal Democrats to introduce it , then it could have ensured defeat for the Conservatives by giving the Lib Dems a clear run in as few as 20 seats . |
| 16 | ‘ We could have said woodland instead of forest but that would have conveyed the idea of something small . |
| 17 | Could have said move ! |
| 18 | In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 . |
| 19 | It sickened her that she could have made love with Tom and be able to remember nothing of it . |
| 20 | " I wish things had been different so that we could have made love just once . |
| 21 | I could have made contact with it at any time . |
| 22 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 23 | Even so , it is impossible that he could have evaded knowledge of the reality . |
| 24 | The question for remoteness was whether the defendants could have foreseen a burn , not whether they could have foreseen cancer . |
| 25 | So in fact , we could have caused chaos on Oxpens Road by parking the bus on double yellow lines and making a big thing of getting handicapped children out , in and out of a specialised vehicle , but we , we actually prefer not to do that , and we go on the car park each week , and we pay the same fee as anybody else fee , pays because er we feel that that 's the right and proper place for us to be and the children to be , as they 're just ordinary members of the community with some special needs . |
| 26 | Ian Rutherford 's beautiful , coloured photograph that she refers to was in the best possible taste and the reference to Gilbert and Sullivan could have caused offence only to someone with an inbuilt dislike to the two old stalwarts . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) That the judge 's failure to direct the jury adequately as to the defendant 's previous good character was a material misdirection which could have caused injustice to him ; that at any stage of the trial the jury were entitled to the judge 's assistance on the facts as well as on the law , the withholding of which constituted an irregularity which might , depending on the circumstances , be material ; and that the judge had erred in failing to ascertain what the jury 's problem was and to give the requisite help ( post , pp. 166C , F–G , 167G , H ) . |
| 28 | I wanted a wet/dry type of trickle filter for use with the vat mainly because I did not want water retained in the filter for any length of time — this could have caused weight problems . |
| 29 | That , yet again , could have caused trouble . |
| 30 | The Consumers Association says some could have caused food poisoning . |