Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 2 | You could have hit them the moment they left the house . ’ |
| 3 | It was such a freak open accident that no amount of preparation or legislation could have prevented what the boy did on that particular occasion . |
| 4 | To think they could have saved themselves the worry . |
| 5 | I could have saved myself the trouble . |
| 6 | This time there was plenty of evidence that could have saved him the trouble of the trip . |
| 7 | If that 's what you 've been looking for you could have saved yourself the trouble . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd asked , I could have saved you the trouble , ’ said Connor pleasantly . |
| 9 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 10 | They could have come in and that could have cost you the ball . |
| 11 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , she could have given you the study downstairs , ’ continued Hilda . |
| 13 | He had said to Mr Kuntar : ‘ You could have told me the truth from the very beginning . |
| 14 | " Could have told you the Silesian Defence would n't work in One-Dimensional Chess . |
| 15 | With that money , we could have provided what the people wanted and real choice . |
| 16 | Few among them could have known what the job entailed . |
| 17 | ‘ These pictures had never been published so there was no way she could have known who the people were . ’ |
| 18 | Had England held a few more catches , that could have won them the match ; as it was , an all-out total of 307 meant victory for West Indies by 134 runs . |