Example sentences of "this [noun] [pron] could have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 2 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 3 | Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 103ff ) , following on Bolinger 1984 , points out likewise that " if my attitude to an event is such that I am glad or sorry about it , this means that in advance of this event I could have predicted my emotional reaction to it " . |
| 4 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 5 | Last year and this year they could have upgraded it at a cost much greater than the initial expenditure and much less efficiently . |
| 6 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 7 | If we had n't taken this step we could 've had fans from both sides mixing inside the ground and locked out on the streets . |