Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosecution says it belonged to Westmore James , the defence say it could have been owned by Ian Barnes and Westmore James had been acting inself defence . |
| 2 | When Jonathan Malcolm and his girlfriend met they could have little idea of the trouble which lay in store . |
| 3 | Pity it was n't in the national newspapers because my lawyer said I could have retired on the proceeds . |
| 4 | Labour supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 5 | The Labour Pary supports the ban but Conservatives and the Tobacco Advisory Council say it could have a knock-on effect on sports like motor-racing and snooker , which are sponsored by tobacco companies . |
| 6 | This report by the Commons Social Security Committee says they could have some of it now … if it was n't for administrators and liquidators spending months in legal wrangles over who gets what . |
| 7 | Sun figures it could have 75MHz versions of its current MicroSparc by summer . |
| 8 | But with a bit of money spent you could have a nice little spinney there — be pretty in the spring . |
| 9 | To Alliance lists they could have given votes in the knowledge that these would not be wasted . |
| 10 | And the good kind fireman-uncle decided we could have the bike — on small payments . |
| 11 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 12 | And there was a big and eh , the farmer said I could have all of this , his wife wanted to , so I , I gathered amount towards wife . |
| 13 | A spokesman said they could have been trying to race the MG . |
| 14 | ‘ The doctor said it could have happened at any time . |
| 15 | Auctioneer Jean-Claude Binoche handling the sale said he could have raised FFr300 million had international buyers been involved . |
| 16 | A pathologist 's report claims he could have survived up to half an hour after the wound was inflicted . |
| 17 | Again , with a further five clients who remained at home for a while , the Ipswich development officer felt she could have continued home support but was overruled by others who preferred institutional care . |
| 18 | Jeanette Howse of the Didcot Railway Centre explains that Kenneth 's popularity means they could have invited a thousand guests . |
| 19 | ‘ Dad said I could have it . |
| 20 | Dad said I could have an order ! |
| 21 | A party who makes such an offer shall file a copy in a sealed envelope , but the offer shall not be brought to the attention of the court at the hearing until the question of costs falls to be decided and the court shall , in exercising its discretion as to costs , take into account any offer which has been brought to its attention : Provided that , except in a case to which paragraph ( 3 ) of the rule applies , the court shall not take such an offer into account if , at the time it is made , the party making it could have protected his position as to costs by means of a payment into court . |
| 22 | But nasty rumours at the time said she could have been helped in . |
| 23 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |