Example sentences of "can [adv] have [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you ca n't have missed this can of worms , even from a foot deep of sand . |
| 2 | he 's only been f here for half of the Debate , under those circumstances since he ca n't have heard all the arguments , it 's a bit rich for him to call us casual . |
| 3 | She ca n't have said that . |
| 4 | He gets shirty with Sir Burke Trend because of the impersonal way in which the Cabinet Minutes are prepared : ‘ I pointed this out to Burke Trend and I said , ‘ Harold ca n't have said this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't have seen much of your brother , ’ she commented , merely by way of conversation . |
| 6 | I ca n't have done that , I ca n't how could I ? |
| 7 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 8 | " You ca n't have spent all that , " said Jasper . |
| 9 | But she ca n't have spent all evening on the loo , can she ? ’ |
| 10 | " And he ca n't have spent any of it , living with his old father in that poky cottage . |
| 11 | Well you ca n't have had much in it . |
| 12 | Malcolm said OK , but even he ca n't have had any idea what Christopherson intended . |
| 13 | Mrs Cresson 's appointment may have helped the Socialists somewhat but can not have done much for the Communists . |
| 14 | ‘ What you did to them can not have done much to put right what their own families had already done . ’ |
| 15 | They can not have done this only by dividing the language into neat areas , for the areas interact in complex ways in which the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts . |
| 16 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 17 | This is a point that can not have escaped those who will be chosing the England/Scotland/N.I. managers . |
| 18 | The parties can not have intended such a consequence . |
| 19 | ‘ You can not have expected such a satisfactory development for the World at such a late stage in the debate . ’ |
| 20 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 21 | There is no evidence that the Ministry of Works spent more on the public sewers than on the helpless , but they can scarcely have expended less money or effort on them . |
| 22 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 23 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 24 | Even though Gundovald can never have said some of the things which Gregory attributes to him , the bishop of Tours must have had some reason for putting the words into his mouth . |