Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 2 | No Government could have done more against crime than we have , and no future Government would be able to do more than we will . |
| 3 | About two million workers had come out in support of the miners , a number which represented almost half the total which the TUC could have called out in support of the miners — and more than it did . |
| 4 | And thank goodness , because we could have ended up with Eldorado — although there is nothing funnier than that . ’ |
| 5 | EIGHT thousand pigeons which vanished during a 300-mile race could have ended up as pie fillings . |
| 6 | They could have ended up in Greenland . ’ |
| 7 | Nobody expected anyone to get their leg broken but one would have thought that the top two teams in the country could have contributed more in terms of effort , flair and excitement . |
| 8 | Even if each bomb contained only 500 curies , less than one-tenth of a gram , the hundreds of tests could have contributed significantly to world leukaemia and cancer levels . |
| 9 | We could have lolled peaceably at home tonight , watching All That Heaven Allows on BBC2 . |
| 10 | They could have been attacked by Indians ; they could have run out of food and water and suffered a terrible death by starvation . |
| 11 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
| 12 | It is difficult to visualize how such intricate and finely tuned mechanisms could have arisen purely by chance , and gradual evolution is unlikely since these instances of cooperation between widely different species appear , in many instances , fully developed , without a series of intermediate forms . |
| 13 | Listen , you could have gone up to Wedford Park today you know , they had erm they had all the children up there and they were doing an a barbecue in the woods . |
| 14 | Leicester could have gone up behind Ipswich on Saturday in the second automatic promotion spot in Division Two had they won at Charlton and Middlesbrough lost at home to Bristol Rovers . |
| 15 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 16 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 17 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 18 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 19 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 20 | She looked down into her drink and answered evasively , ‘ I suppose I could have gone back to Darlington , but I preferred to stay down here . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't suppose he could have gone down to Miller 's End ? ’ |
| 22 | The prosecution argues that Mr Lorenzo was in no danger and could have stepped out of harm 's way . |
| 23 | This technique was compatible with a more open-ended view of natural relationships , although most naturalists were as yet unwilling to concede that life could have developed solely in response to adaptive pressures . |
| 24 | ‘ There is n't a budget for this , ’ says JWT 's joint managing director William Eccleshare , but a quick tally of advertising costs per paper shows the campaign could have cost up to £450,000 . |
| 25 | I could have wound up in Wiesbaden for all I knew . |
| 26 | And no one , he argued in terms that could have come straight from John Stuart Mill , could have a monopoly of the truth , either in asking questions or answering them ; it could be determined only through the interplay of argument . |
| 27 | We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’ |
| 28 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 29 | I could have worked all over Europe , Ingrid . |
| 30 | But I would have thought you could have got away with banking once a week . |