Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the old days he could 've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope . |
| 2 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 3 | If he had given the speech that he gave at Bayeux in June 1946 a year earlier , he could have turned the October 1945 referendum and elections into a referendum on his own views . |
| 4 | A defence of acting in her best medical interests fails : he could have tried to find a female gynaecologist , and , indeed , his female house officer had already examined the patient ; a pelvic mass could have been shown by ultrasonography ; if it was necessary to exclude pelvic disease a laparoscopy could have been performed before the appendicectomy ; it is doubtful whether the examination under anaesthesia served any purpose as tenderness could not be elicited ; and , finally , he could have asked the patient first whether an examination under anaesthesia was an acceptable compromise . |
| 5 | He could have stood the writing as long as she had looked up to him for guidance like one of his young workshop pupils . |
| 6 | He could have stopped the trial and we had discussed whether to apply for a stay of prosecution , but once I was in the fight I wanted to carry on , whatever the consequences . ’ |
| 7 | If he had acted like any chauffeur of reasonable competence he could have stopped the fire by turning off the tap connecting the petrol tank with the carburettor . |
| 8 | With the way Greg played that year , he could have done the slam . |
| 9 | How much more depressed he would have been , if he could have seen the silent trombonist in years to come , ensconced in his offices , sifting the sparse and scattered remains of his life . |
| 10 | Or — as Michel Debré and others recommended — he could have presented a draft constitution to the people for approval , as he later did in 1958 . |
| 11 | Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir . |
| 12 | He could have pushed the throttle forwards and avoided the accident by using the engine . |
| 13 | We should remember , too , that " emphasis " has an insidious tendency to become an all-purpose cause credited for a whole variety of syntactic and phonological variations where intuition suggests that there is a difference to be explained but where no other cause can immediately be brought to light ; all that is needed , apparently , is that a speaker ( or even a linguist ) should be able to imagine himself uttering one of a pair of variants with a certain emphasis on some occasion , while at the same time feeling that he could have said the other without any emphasis being implied . |
| 14 | A very thoughtful cricketer , with a much greater knowledge of the game 's history than most players , one had the impression that he could have made a fine Test captain had the chance come earlier . |
| 15 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 16 | If only he could have preached conventionally he might have been accepted , and if he could have imitated the smoothness of those illustrators he admired , he could have made a living . |
| 17 | Is it not a fact that if the right Hon. Gentleman was dissatisfied with the time that would be available by way of a normal parliamentary answer , he could have opted as any Minister , with your permission , Mr. Speaker , to take that question at the end of Question time and then face proper intensive questions , or he could have made a statement ? |
| 18 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 19 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |
| 20 | On an emotional day like October 19 , he could have made the difference between success and abject failure . |
| 21 | Indeed , getting kitted up like a beatnik represented a self-help endeavour , of which , if he could have made an imaginative leap , Samuel Smiles himself would have been proud . |
| 22 | In fact , hindsight leads one to suggest that Jimmy came to the Palace 20 years too soon — he could have become an inspiration in Malcolm Allison 's footballing team of the mid-1970s . |
| 23 | He could have become an Olympic long-jump champion , as he 'd once broken the world record . |
| 24 | He could have waited a year before he paid the tax but he always paid it immediately . |
| 25 | Hill blasted critics who believe he could have blocked the Frenchman 's passing move in Montreal instead of moving across to allow him room to go through . |
| 26 | However , asked by a defence lawyer whether he accepted that he could have fired the round , the soldier replied : ‘ My Lord , definitely not . ’ |
| 27 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |
| 28 | If only he could have believed the best about her all by himself . |
| 29 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 30 | His head looked like a fudge sundae I swear to God , he could have put a spoon in his ear and a maraschino cherry on his crown and looked no worse . |