Example sentences of "i could have gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have gone to one of the libraries or museums , art galleries … |
| 2 | On the other hand , if I 'd lost I could have gone home quicky . ’ |
| 3 | I could have gone with it , giving myself four blissful miles of upland walking followed by as many miserable hours of fruitless searching for return transport to East Kielder Farm . |
| 4 | I could have gone to America with him , but I did n't because I refuse to fly . |
| 5 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 6 | If only I could have gone out there and helped to put matters right . |
| 7 | When I finish I think I could have gone faster but during the race , it 's a different matter . |
| 8 | ‘ I could have gone to Wolves , ’ Kelly admitted . |
| 9 | ‘ I could have gone to European clubs for a lot more money than I earn now , ’ he says . |
| 10 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |
| 11 | Oh , I could have gone further , I suppose — put up a bullfight poster to make Stuart feel at home but one must n't entirely submerge one 's personality , I find , otherwise one 's guests do n't know whom they 're meeting . |
| 12 | But Stuart is so effervescent , so bloody méthode champenoise nowadays that I could have gone down on my knees to his wife and he would have accepted my explanation that I was tacking up her hem . |
| 13 | Well , I suppose that would have been fine if I could have gone along with it , but I was n't quite ready for that . |
| 14 | Then I could have gone just one way — either way — and raked in the entire pot . |
| 15 | When I had stopped kicking against the pricks I began to ask myself how much longer I could have gone on without somebody noticing the change in my figure . |
| 16 | But honestly , I could have gone on all night . |
| 17 | ‘ I said , I could have gone back . |
| 18 | I could have gone back for them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I could have gone back . ’ |
| 20 | Then I could have gone on to explain why it was a duiker no more . |
| 21 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 22 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 23 | She looked down into her drink and answered evasively , ‘ I suppose I could have gone back to Darlington , but I preferred to stay down here . ’ |
| 24 | This is bloody hard work — if I 'd wanted a holiday like this I could have gone down the mines for a fortnight . ’ |
| 25 | I could have gone to Birmingham in that time . |
| 26 | ‘ I could have gone on scoring all night , oh yeah , you do n't get tired . |
| 27 | I could have gone to see her . ’ |
| 28 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 29 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 30 | ‘ It was my own choice to stay there , when I could have gone to a hotel . ’ |