Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they could have rung yesterday that 's the trouble you see they 've got so many friends Good girl you fairly worked that bleeding money . |
| 2 | I mean they could have gone , look how long Aberech station , er platform is . |
| 3 | I mean we could have a talk . ’ |
| 4 | Well it does really , I mean if we , it 's a question of whether the budget will stand the staff , is n't it , it 's not whether we , er I mean in terms of of redundancies it 's whether we cou , if we appointed people we could afford to keep them on , whether or not there was work , I mean we could have create work in some senses . |
| 5 | I mean we could have been worse , could have forgotten completely . |
| 6 | I mean it could have been different it could have got out of control and then everybody would have turned and pointed a finger and that would have been awful . |
| 7 | I mean it could have been done if we 'd got a go-ahead . |
| 8 | I mean I could have made it up it was that easy . |
| 9 | I mean you could have , if you have basically what we 're saying is that you have a whole load of of subject reports and on the top of it you 've got form tutor report |
| 10 | I mean you could have a negative number to the minus eight . |
| 11 | But there 's so many choices I mean you could have what you wanted . |
| 12 | I mean you could have a whole new roof put on your house and it would cost about six thousand , seven thousand pounds and |
| 13 | Well I mean you could have you could have one in here . |
| 14 | Cheek is n't it really , I mean he could have got the train could n't he ? |
| 15 | I mean she could have probably had |
| 16 | I mean she could have done nothing |
| 17 | I mean she could have it all could n't she ? |
| 18 | I 've got nothing other , I do n't know whether anybody 's aware of what went on last Wednesday and probably that , I mean there could have been there was a , sort of a , a cable that , a mains cable that heated up and started smoking and er , we had to deal with that . |
| 19 | It was n't till the evening when we sat down and talked about it that I realised it could have been quite dangerous . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I realise he could have raped me . ’ |
| 21 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 22 | I expect he could have managed the operation much more easily by himself . |
| 23 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 24 | and as I cooled I could have been |
| 25 | I hope I could have done with that |
| 26 | ‘ I know I could have made you happy , Ruth , ’ he replied . |
| 27 | I know she could have . |
| 28 | Partly it was pride ; I could n't countenance exposing all that I was feeling ; but — and I know this does n't mitigate anything , but perhaps it balances the self-interest , self-protection or whatever it was — even then I was also still afraid of succumbing to the temptation to use the power I sensed I could have over you , and the use would have been abuse . ’ |
| 29 | Still , I reckon it could have been worse . |
| 30 | I believe I could have stopped him . |