Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [vb infin] [vb pp] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have stayed an interesting union , but the Healey stayed a Healey and the Cobra was an AC . |
| 2 | I wish someone had told me he was vegetarian : I could have made an omelette . |
| 3 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 4 | ‘ I can hardly believe , ’ he found himself saying , ‘ that someone like me could have become an … er … |
| 5 | ‘ Are you aware that you could have caused an accident — a serious accident ? |
| 6 | You could have bought an ITV franchise for less . |
| 7 | You could have driven an articulated lorry up the leg . |
| 8 | ‘ You could have had an abortion and nobody would have known . |
| 9 | ‘ We could have fought an honourable , Observer-Guardian-style war with the Ludovic Kennedys in charge , but we would have lost it and Britain would have been enslaved , ’ he wrote . |
| 10 | I do n't see how they could have caused an explosion . |
| 11 | A packet of Jaw Breakers cost 15 pence for four.But they could have cost an eight year old boy his life . |
| 12 | But they could have cost an 8 year old boy his life . |
| 13 | ‘ If they were spirits , or rogue hewkin babes , they could have plucked an image from your mind , like a berry from a bush . |
| 14 | There 's very little way , bearing in mind that an accident like this happens so very quickly and no doubt traffic was using all 3 carriageways on the northbound , that they could have avoided an impact . |
| 15 | He did n't want to get on worse terms with his mother , from whom he hoped to get a loan for his holiday in Greece , nor did he want the kind of thing that might have happened , his mother phoning hospitals or getting the police because they could have had an accident in Goblander . |
| 16 | It could have caused an accident , but it did n't . |
| 17 | We do implement such measures where we believe that it is right to do so , but we have opposed the working time directive , for example , because it could have added an extra £5 billion to British industry 's costs . |
| 18 | Last year , so piqued was I by this , that I plunged the outsize handbag of an excessively bossy senior stewardess from Central Office into a fire-bucket of water on the grounds that it could have contained an incendiary device . |
| 19 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 20 | In fact , hindsight leads one to suggest that Jimmy came to the Palace 20 years too soon — he could have become an inspiration in Malcolm Allison 's footballing team of the mid-1970s . |
| 21 | He could have become an Olympic long-jump champion , as he 'd once broken the world record . |
| 22 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 23 | If he were simply bored , I should have thought , begging your pardon , that he could have found an occupation rather more civilized than grease-monkeying in Swindon — ’ |