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 . |