Example sentences of "could have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 2 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 3 | The government could have clamped down at an early stage with tough deflationary policies . |
| 4 | At first it had amused her , because his Englishness could have stood out like a sore thumb , could have made them , indeed , appear inferior in some subtle way , less smooth , less cultured , provincial . |
| 5 | And he said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 6 | But Blades manager Dave Bassett reflected on his early days in charge of Vinny Jones and Co. at Wimbledon and said : ‘ That mob could have gone in against a team containing Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier and looked after themselves . |
| 7 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 8 | ‘ The first two weeks off were difficult because I could have fallen out of an automatic cup spot , but last week was great . |
| 9 | However , by handling the machine with some software , Comet Data could have come up with a real bargain . |
| 10 | Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series . |
| 11 | Actually it was lucky that we went right over all three lanes of the motorway , there was a lot of people behind us , but luckily they saw the tyres , and they backed off , but we could have finished up in a real |
| 12 | And in fact some of the the erm the that you look at now , could have walked out of a Dickens novel . |
| 13 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 14 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 15 | Boyish , flaxen-haired , fresh-faced , with a spring in his step , he could have slipped out of an old singing/dancing Cliff Richard film . |
| 16 | The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state . |