Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] out [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 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 .
3 Westward had recently been the scene of a public boardroom row that could have come out of a TV series .
4 And in fact some of the the erm the that you look at now , could have walked out of a Dickens novel .
5 The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state .
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