Example sentences of "[noun] she could [adv] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for Rita Allen , life in Canada has brought promise of a fuller future — a kind of future she could n't have contemplated before . |
| 2 | It was not a matter of ‘ if only … ’ , but rather a nostalgia for a different , a parallel plane of existence , a nostalgia for a future she could never have lived . |
| 3 | She 's had help now , but what a pity , you know , then I guess people were n't so aware of what could be done , but what a pity she could n't have had help at the time . |
| 4 | In that instant she could happily have hit him . |
| 5 | On her money she could well have afforded something grander , like a Porsche , but evidently she had decided against ostentation . |
| 6 | She was rarely pleased to see Damien , but at that moment she could cheerfully have driven red-hot nails into his ugly wedge of a face . |
| 7 | In her place she could n't have stood that for one moment , but neither could she take a man from his wife . |
| 8 | ‘ Pimm 's … ’ she said huskily , grateful he did not ask any painful questions , questions she could not have answered . |
| 9 | ‘ He took her all right — took her to the kind of life she could never have dreamed of . |
| 10 | Already , she wore on her arms all the jewellery she could ever have dreamed of . |
| 11 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 12 | She knelt to lay the tray on the grass , then , frankly curious , turned to study him in a way she could never have done had he been conscious . |
| 13 | Bare , a little shabby , sorely in need of a fresh coat of paint , yet the room excited her in a way she could never have explained . |
| 14 | By this time she could already have borne him their two sons , Swegen and Harold . |
| 15 | From her family 's point of view she could scarcely have chosen a more unsuitable lover . |
| 16 | Oh Jesus , Sam , she was everybody 's Aunt Jemima , if she 'd turned up with her hair in a bun and flour on her apron she could n't have made them love her more , Jesus , Sam , we 're not guilty . |