Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] [pron] could have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a further three she felt she had sufficient evidence to suggest that she could have supported the client at home but was overruled by others . |
| 2 | As far as is known practical tests of centrifugal launchers were never undertaken , and with hindsight it is difficult to imagine that they could have proved to be a practical notion , requiring large structures and imposing high stresses on man and machinery . |
| 3 | Anyway it was very kind of the manager to do that he could have said nothing . |
| 4 | Now that she was thinking more rationally , all the old doubts came back , and she found it hard to believe that she could have behaved so rashly . |
| 5 | It was easy to believe that anything could have happened here . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's hard to believe that I could have spent two whole years walking round with blinkers on . |
| 7 | By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year . |
| 8 | And I felt absolutely horrified , devastated to think that he could have done that sort of damage and just walked away he did n't even have to pay for the damage he 'd done . |
| 9 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't know , but I 'd like to think that I could have pulled the trigger if I 'd had to . |
| 10 | Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’ |
| 11 | On balance , she had to admit that it could have happened that way . |
| 12 | It is important to note that we could have chosen any example of a stressful situation with which a person is having problems . |