Example sentences of "she could [adv] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why go to all the trouble of providing her with information about Rainald , which she could easily have related to fitzAlan ? |
| 2 | Josie 's job was to suggest the changes with the most minimal effects , but the truth of the matter was that she could probably have slapped on the makeup with a billposter 's brush and the trash would be equally fooled . |
| 3 | I never asked her , but I do n't imagine oral penetration figured as high on her list of priorities as it did on mine , and she could probably have done without the anal variety altogether . |
| 4 | Lisa knew she could never have managed without her . |
| 5 | Something she could never have dreamt of . |
| 6 | ‘ He took her all right — took her to the kind of life she could never have dreamed of . |
| 7 | She could only have driven about a mile , she estimated , but as she trudged back along the road it seemed like a marathon trek . |
| 8 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 9 | Already , she wore on her arms all the jewellery she could ever have dreamed of . |
| 10 | But she was glad of that too , for she might have felt she was honour bound to refuse — she could hardly have consented without shame — but this way , he had given her the most intense pleasure , which crossed her back and forth in waves of shock and fear , redoubling upon themselves and increasing in strength . |