Example sentences of "could [vb infin] do [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they want to come and see the factory , they want to go to yeah , it fell down cos Richard was too busy at the end of last year , fine get that sorted and i Sally was dropped in the crap by right at the end of last year , came on five sets of bearings , I could 've done 'em in two weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ He had spent years building a team he could trust to do anything in his absence . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wales had all those great backs but they could have done nothing without their forwards . |
| 7 | Somebody in authority would have known that he was married though , but , probably not anybody who could have done anything about preventing another one . |
| 8 | If only he could have done it with the Palace ! |
| 9 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 10 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 11 | Merrivale could have done it on his own when he was in there with her , and the gentleman who came in from outside did n't need a partner either . |
| 12 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 13 | She could have done it on her head . |
| 14 | ‘ We could have done it on Renascia , because we knew where the stars where and what their names were . |
| 15 | We made the journey in three days ; we could have done it in two but we chose not to . |
| 16 | souf I could have done it in there |
| 17 | Could have done it from the front . |