Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity you were n't here , I could have rushed up a ticket or two and you could have explained the finer nuances . |
| 2 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 3 | I could n't have missed him , but I could have slowed down a bit . |
| 4 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 5 | And when the walls came tumbling down in Eastern Europe at the end of 1989 to reveal cowering and bitter populations , overflowing prisons and mental hospitals , ruthless armies of secret police and state informers , corrupt politicians and equality in misery only , they might have wondered how their parents could have given even a second thought to the self-evidently corrupt , ruthless and authoritarian appeal of the ideal of ‘ World Communism ’ . |
| 6 | It was impossible that anyone could have torn out a brick through the wallpaper . |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that ! |
| 8 | NO Hollywood script writer could have conjured up a story to compare with the one Michael Galwey has produced and starred in . |
| 9 | And can I tell you , that if we 'd just done Covermaster , somebody could have picked up a point there . |
| 10 | If she could have picked up a rock she would have hurled it at his rotten head . |
| 11 | Kings boss Chris Kelly added : ‘ I did n't want to play at all and feel that on a neutral ground with our display against Peterborough we could have pulled off a shock win . |