Example sentences of "[pers pn] could have [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 2 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |
| 3 | I could have gone to the authorities , he thought , asked for help . |
| 4 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 5 | I could have done without the ‘ vote of confidence ’ the Board gave me a month ago … every football manager knows what that invariably means . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not want to view any of what has happened in a negative light , though it goes without saying that I could have done without the loss of our first-pick forwards for a game of this type . ’ |
| 7 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have done with a hand . ’ |
| 9 | I could have done with a little more natural variation in the sound , but seeing that all Kirk is probably going to do with it is leave it on the neck pickup , knock all the middle off at the amp and turn it up to an excruciating volume , it does n't have to be the most variable guitar in the world . |
| 10 | I could have done with a few . |
| 11 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 12 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 13 | My time would only be impressive if clocked by sundial but I was pleased with it , though I could have done with a couple of gym sessions to get in shape . |
| 14 | I could have done with the two hundred and thirty quid though |
| 15 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 16 | Pity it was n't in the national newspapers because my lawyer said I could have retired on the proceeds . |
| 17 | I could have stood at the window all afternoon , |
| 18 | If I could have thought of a use for it at the time , I would have stayed and bid . |
| 19 | I could have thought of a marginally more interesting way for us to spend the evening together , but it would have been harder to review . |
| 20 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 21 | ‘ Being a hijra was the only possibility for me ; there was no other career I could have pursued with the body that was given to me at birth . |
| 22 | I enjoyed my life with them and I do n't think I could have coped in the beginning without them . |
| 23 | ‘ When I read the Medau News , ‘ she says , ‘ I am completely overwhelmed with admiration at the way my Medau colleagues have created a Medau world in this country — far beyond any pipe dreams Molly and I could have had in the early years of struggle . |
| 24 | I RECENTLY found a wallet containing credit cards which I could have used in a dishonest way . |
| 25 | Of course it was too early in his life to be certain that the gods had called him , but I could have wished for no better career for him than that of a priest-administrator . |
| 26 | ‘ Now ’ , he said , ‘ I could have spoken to the very crows that sat upon the ploughed land before me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ After Jaws I could have pissed in a pot and they would have paid me something , ’ he says . |
| 28 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 29 | So she said what it was , and then looking through it , it actually certainly we could have done with a fle I could have looked at the the flexible thing before we came to the meeting , because it |
| 30 | He stepped away from her and she could have wept at the cold desolation that closed round her . |