Example sentences of "could [vb infin] that [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A politician who could offer a friend 's relative one of the better appointments could consider that he had rendered a signal service , which he was rarely slow to point out . |
| 2 | He could sense that she had travelled far as a vagrant and had seen much and that like him she was in some way returning home . |
| 3 | As he lolled in his chair , not asleep but relaxed , he could remember that he had felt no tension , less excitement , as he had thrown his bag into the back seat of the car , climbed into the front carrying the Ruger with the integral silencer in a large plastic shopping bag . |
| 4 | The second man had lunged across the target , he could remember that , and he could remember that he had kept squeezing the trigger . |
| 5 | He cocked his head to one side and I could see that something had caught his attention . |
| 6 | He could see that something had happened . |
| 7 | When he stood back , he could see that he had created a superb landscape with figures . |
| 8 | But the Collector could see that he had given the order to fire too soon . |
| 9 | Her eyes were adjusting to the darkness , and now she could see that he had folded his arms over the enticing broadness of his chest and was watching her with a challenging glitter in his eyes . |
| 10 | I could sense the energy starting to flow in him now that this fiction was coming alive , and I could see that he had used make-up on himself ; not greasepaint or anything heavy , more a matter of darkening and thickening his eyebrows and darkening his mouth , emphasizing rather than disguising . |
| 11 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 12 | Even in the short time since he 'd chased the car along the street , she could see that he 'd gone further downhill . |
| 13 | When she put them down , I could see that she had accepted the truth . |
| 14 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 15 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |
| 16 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 17 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 18 | It was a long speech and he could see that it had tired her . |
| 19 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 20 | Owen could believe that he had poured out all the wound and hurt that was in his heart when he spoke to Zoser . |
| 21 | She occasionally did style her hair that way and , since she had never so much as dreamt of meeting Ven when she 'd purchased her black dress , no one could suggest that she had bought it with him in mind . |
| 22 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 23 | ‘ He telephoned to tell me about it … he was very angry when he saw you with that book and I could tell that he had said things he should not have said . ’ |
| 24 | If anything , I suppose I could complain that you 've tried to take her from me — but I do n't blame you for that . |
| 25 | I could check that she had begun to get her divorce at about the time of Sir Charles ' death . |
| 26 | Only half of the libraries that returned questionnaires could say that they had considered how automation would affect the way they could continue to contribute information about holdings to the SUC . |
| 27 | Er er we could say that we 've got a much bigger range of aims and does that mean that we are more likely to have |
| 28 | So by taking a trip back nearly three hundred years we could say that we have covered the pre-modern world thoroughly enough . |
| 29 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |
| 30 | So I suppose one could say that you 've seen us at our worst , and anything else can only be an improvement . ’ |