Example sentences of "could [vb infin] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could 've come . |
| 2 | He could 've come in the shop and bought them , yeah . |
| 3 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 4 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 5 | You should 've come and knocked for me cos you could 've come in and played computer and everything . |
| 6 | It went on so long that finally I did undress and started to give in to the sleep I could feel coming on me . |
| 7 | He could remember coming to this house fifteen years earlier to deliver her first child . |
| 8 | The only other regular vehicles to come by would be cement lorries , large yellow giants driven by steam which , as darkness fell , you could see coming with the fire boxes aglow . |
| 9 | Well he could try coming down . |
| 10 | I suppose they could have come that way . ’ |
| 11 | He called for ‘ democracy through good behaviour ’ , a maxim that could have come from the mouth of Chairman Mao . |
| 12 | This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods . |
| 13 | It did n't seem possible that things could have come to a head so soon . |
| 14 | We have already looked at ways in which complicated organic molecules could have come into being when the Earth was young ; and these complicated organic molecules could well have included nucleotides and amino acids . |
| 15 | The leak could have come from any one of a large number of sources , as far too many people knew about the plans . |
| 16 | Support for Scott could have come from Stanley 's Parliamentary Under Secretary , Henry Baillie , who was a personal friend of Manners and had been a supporter of Young England . |
| 17 | Thus it can be shown that religion and god-worship could have come to man , more or less inevitably , as a product of the very nature of his evolution . |
| 18 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 19 | The following hypothesis suggests the manner in which this could have come about . |
| 20 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 21 | He wished he had n't quarrelled with Tina , then she could have come along to share what he was going to do . |
| 22 | Your dog could have come to you through a large or small dog charity , breed rescue or a private exchange — if you have given your dog its second ( or third … ) home , we want you to take part . |
| 23 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 24 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
| 25 | If the investment managers had to come in they could have come in at any time . |
| 26 | It was obvious that not all these people could have come from the upper classes . |
| 27 | They could have come from anyone , anywhere . ’ |
| 28 | His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs . |
| 29 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 30 | Their attitudes were so different , they could have come from separate planets . |