Example sentences of "could not have [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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1 | I could not have got through it without him . |
2 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
3 | If it was me , I could n't have gone through it . |
4 | No , he could n't have asked for it to have turned out better . |
5 | You could have — I know that now , and I also know that I could n't have coped with it then . ’ |
6 | They could n't have coped with it , no ! |