Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] a fortune " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could 've made a fortune flogging beads to hippies . ’ |
| 2 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 3 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 4 | Some people say I was a fool and could have made a fortune . |
| 5 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 6 | Anyone selling aluminium step ladders outside the Belfry could have made a fortune because after the first few minutes of the match , newcomers realised they could n't see the action on a flat course , unsympathetic to any onlooker less than six feet in height . |
| 7 | For years our annual mileage was as high as 37,000 — we could have saved a fortune . ’ |