Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cleaned the whole apartment when I was pregnant — Jesus , I was at it from morning till night , you could 've eaten your breakfast off of the john . ’ |
| 2 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 3 | ‘ So if Nigel had wanted to , he could have turfed his father out of his own houses . ’ |
| 4 | The simplest account for the relationship between risk and recall in this study was that subjects recalled the risky situations because they knew it was an experiment about risk , this knowledge could have affected their performance both at encoding and at retrieval . |
| 5 | ‘ I just wish I could have seen his face clearly for one last time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I were a thief I could have forced my way in , or crept secretly in , ’ said the little tailor . |
| 7 | I could have put my doctor down but he 's down in London so I 'm in the process of changing doctors again . |
| 8 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 9 | Hopefully United could have found their form just at the right time . |
| 10 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 11 | I could have bitten her head off . |
| 12 | She could have bitten her tongue off , letting herself be carried away like that . |
| 13 | ‘ But there are men who consider her beautiful , ’ Isabel remarked , and in the next instant could have bitten her tongue out . |
| 14 | She could have bitten her tongue out for asking it . |
| 15 | Robbie could have bitten her tongue out immediately the words escaped . |
| 16 | As soon as he had spoken , Grant could have bitten his tongue off , realising his words displayed weakness . |
| 17 | Athelstan asked hastily , and wished he could have bitten his tongue out the moment he spoke . |
| 18 | Luke Hunter could have talked his way out of the Tower of London … |
| 19 | I could have won my place back and been in the Leicester side tomorrow , but I 've got no regrets about coming to Newcastle . |
| 20 | But , since she had no wish to have a discussion with him about it when for all she knew he could have telephoned her hotel yesterday or the day before and been told simply that she was n't available , she chose to assume that he did not know . |
| 21 | The " Pseudo-Isidorean " team could have accomplished their work nowhere else in the Carolingian world , any more than the series of conciliar acts and episcopal statutes could have been produced anywhere else on such a sustained large scale . |
| 22 | Therefore , the IT in Mr Sen 's case could have allowed his claim in because he had acted on the advice of a member of IT staff . |
| 23 | I could have brought her Undry so easily , she thought ; but I left it at Ben Hesketh 's … and then told Adam we should take it to Andernesse … |
| 24 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ He could have taken my eye out if he 'd had a knife . |