Example sentences of "could [vb infin] come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs . |
| 3 | Before them was a landscape that could have come straight from the brush of Giotto . |
| 4 | And no one , he argued in terms that could have come straight from John Stuart Mill , could have a monopoly of the truth , either in asking questions or answering them ; it could be determined only through the interplay of argument . |
| 5 | Does it not seem to you that had the guilt been his , he could have come straight home and said never a word , and left it to some other to find the dead and sound the alarm ? ’ |
| 6 | CATHERINE You could have come here if you needed help . |
| 7 | By the time yesterday came round , by lunchtime he could have come really but . |
| 8 | His plan was audacious , and could have come only from a man combining cunning with iron determination . |
| 9 | The others , the ones designed to look tentative , could have come afterwards . |
| 10 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |