Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [prep] any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposite him , he noticed that Janet Roscoe had delved once more into the deep handbag , this time producing a very slim volume , whose title it was impossible for him not to see , and which he could have guessed in any case : CHAUCER , Tale of the Wyf of Bathe . |
| 2 | As a gleaner , Ruth could have gone to any part of the field , but she happened to come a fo , part of the field that belonged to Boaz . |
| 3 | ‘ This cat had everything and could have gone down any road , ’ said the Beverly Hills Cop star . |
| 4 | The election , the most fraught for decades , could have turned on any number of issues . |
| 5 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 6 | The basic problem in the layout is precisely that of Chedworth — finding the house where an owner who could afford such engineering could have lived in any style . |
| 7 | ‘ It appears it could have happened at any time , even running for a bus , ’ said headmaster Harrison Huddart , at Hewart Grange School , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 8 | The horse 's trainer Robin Dickin said : ‘ It could have happened at any time , on the racecourse or at home . |
| 9 | ‘ The doctor said it could have happened at any time . |
| 10 | The frosted glass panel with my name on it had been cracked , but that could have happened at any time . |
| 11 | I have explained everything to her , told her it could have happened at any time . |
| 12 | I do not think that if the council , on making an inspection , had found the gate newly padlocked , they could have come to any conclusion other than that [ the defendant ] was intending to exclude everyone , including themselves , from the land . " … |
| 13 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 14 | They could have left at any time . |
| 15 | Both could have passed through any number of hands before being finally installed in the Toshiba radio-cassette player used to house the Lockerbie bomb . |
| 16 | With his keys he could have got into any part . ’ |