Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |
| 2 | He had no need of knives — his teeth alone could have ripped out my throat . |
| 3 | If his father could have found out what flight they were coming on , the police certainly could . |
| 4 | It was a cruel , tactless thing to say and she could have bitten out her tongue the second the words were spoken , but the excitement bubbling inside her was too much to contain . |
| 5 | ‘ We hardened criminals learn to take the rough with the smooth , ’ she joked , then could have bitten out her tongue , because it had been a friendly overture , and now his face had closed up . |
| 6 | The sexton looked hurt and Athelstan could have bitten out his tongue . |
| 7 | She could have stretched out her hand and touched it . |
| 8 | Instead of standing stubbornly and heroically on the Right Bank , the French could have drawn back their hands from Verdun , which , since the dismantling of its forts , was in any case no longer such an indispensable defensive pinion . |