Example sentences of "[pron] could [not/n't] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday I could n't have done it . |
| 2 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 3 | Francis said : ‘ I could n't have your patience , darling ! |
| 4 | And you 're forty something and straight and divorced and celibate and a mother and I could n't have found a more complicated situation to fall in love with . |
| 5 | And I could n't have done without the bike . |
| 6 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 7 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 8 | Being in effect a doll , Blackeyes was as dumb as she was beautiful but I could n't have put it better myself . |
| 9 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't have lived with myself if I had n't put up a fight on behalf of the men . ’ |
| 11 | He knows how I feel , me being an only child … he 's a wonderful husband , I could n't have a better husband . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , I could n't have explained it clearly to the dog . |
| 13 | I could n't have exposed myself as he and Sergei had done . |
| 14 | I could n't have gone any further . |
| 15 | I could n't have got the same effect if I 'd fictionalised them . ’ |
| 16 | I could n't have stood the scene had I refused — and then I forgot to remove it once I started to stalk . ’ |
| 17 | It is said that 50 per cent of people in Basildon read the Sun , and the appalling ‘ Terry ’ Dicks also claims ‘ I could n't have done it without the Sun ’ . |
| 18 | I could n't have been more wrong ; people are very respectful there . |
| 19 | I could n't have run a raid yesterday , and I 'm certain sure he could n't . |
| 20 | Mum said no , I could n't have it because she had already spent her money . |
| 21 | The traffic had been slightly congested there and I could n't have accelerated to thirty miles an hour . |
| 22 | I could n't have cared less what Dennis Parsons thought of me , of course . |
| 23 | I could n't have Cal thinking this creature had anything to do with me — I 'd have to explain I was only using him to threaten Mum and Dad with . |
| 24 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 25 | I could n't have arranged a better still life . |
| 26 | ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’ |
| 27 | I brought it with me and I would n't have taken the job if I could n't have continued it here . |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't have left him there — no way , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I could n't have a better head groom . |
| 30 | If my parents had n't sent me money every week , I could n't have survived . ’ |