Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] done [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered if I could have done something , anything to prevent being apart from my son . |
| 2 | If I 'd seen what was happening , had n't been quite so involved in my work , I could have done something about it before it was too late . ’ |
| 3 | I mean she could have done nothing |
| 4 | ‘ As I said , it 's up to you , ’ said this stupid young man , who could have done anything he liked to me — or so I felt at that moment — if only he had done it , and not talked about it first , trying to strike a bargain . |
| 5 | Somebody in authority would have known that he was married though , but , probably not anybody who could have done anything about preventing another one . |
| 6 | ‘ If the Japanese government were stronger , we could have done something to prevent the Gulf war . |
| 7 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 8 | was a bit drunk one afternoon at about four o'clock and he said , ‘ If it was just an ‘ oul book we could have done something for you but with marrying this foreign woman you 're a hopeless case . ’ |
| 9 | In 1974 military engineers stood by to operate power stations in Northern Ireland during the protest strike by the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council , though they could have done nothing without the help of at least the power station managers . |
| 10 | Wales had all those great backs but they could have done nothing without their forwards . |
| 11 | It could have done anything . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe he could have done something to avert the tragedy … |
| 13 | But he could have done something quite dramatic and significant there . |
| 14 | ‘ The test for Neil is whether he could have done anything better to prepare himself for the task ahead . |
| 15 | He could have done anything . ’ |
| 16 | He could have done anything — anything . ’ |