Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , Auntie could have done far worse than that . |
| 2 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 3 | Of course , the dinosaur specialist has long recognized that some of the smaller species were fairly agile , and could have reached considerably higher speeds than the larger carnosaurs . |
| 4 | We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling . |
| 5 | The 128th-ranked Wood has a more difficult task against no 67 Wiltrud Probst of Germany , but Britain 's No 2 from Sussex could have fared much worse . |
| 6 | We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have . |