Example sentences of "[pron] could have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I could have got my nose in front again maybe I could have twisted it round but it was n't to be . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you 'd asked , I could have saved you the trouble , ’ said Connor pleasantly . |
| 3 | I could have saved you ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'm not saying I could have saved it , but in other spins since , I 've realised what is about to happen and dropped in quick to save it . |
| 5 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 6 | ‘ I could have sent him some of my wages . ’ |
| 7 | I could have lost you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 9 | ‘ Hardly , or I could have asked it over the telephone , and avoided imposing upon you . |
| 10 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 11 | you know I only wish I could have heard him |
| 12 | I could have fixed it , but but I could n't find the thing |
| 13 | ‘ In past years I could have authorized it , ’ Potter says . |
| 14 | Once someone in the crew told my boyfriend that a love scene I 'd done with Craig really sizzled — and I could have kicked her because it was just a scene , it was n't real . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I could have fired her , you know ? |
| 16 | ‘ I could have destroyed you six years ago , ’ he continued . |
| 17 | As I say , I could have destroyed you , or so I thought at the time , but you 've turned out to be a lot tougher than I had imagined … not vulnerable or confused at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Stay calm , Roger , I could have blown you up but I did n't . |
| 19 | I could have called it k instead , but for reasons that become apparent in a moment we will be interested in the size of the square root of the number , so I have used |
| 20 | However , had that been a reason , I could have accepted it . |
| 21 | The connection with neurosis was not unconscious , nor yet fully conscious in the sense that I could have expressed it verbally , but it was , in being unique , all-pervasive . |
| 22 | Do you think I would have let the Master grow into the twisted megalomaniac he is if I could have prevented it ? |
| 23 | ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’ |
| 24 | I suppose I could have imagined it . ’ |
| 25 | Meg said again : ‘ I suppose I could have imagined it , but I do n't think so . |
| 26 | I could have strangled him . |
| 27 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
| 28 | I could have kissed him . |
| 29 | I was so elated and relieved I could have kissed them , but immediately felt ashamed that I 'd let them see my fear . |
| 30 | I could have hit him ! |