Example sentences of "she could [adv] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 2 | Why go to all the trouble of providing her with information about Rainald , which she could easily have related to fitzAlan ? |
| 3 | She could easily have wept as messily and uselessly as Monica . |
| 4 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 5 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 6 | If she was n't hungry enough to be interested in food , she could easily have flown off . |
| 7 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 8 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 9 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 10 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 11 | It had stopped raining , and she could easily have walked ; but she let Ben drive her , slowly , talking about Jake all the way . |
| 12 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 13 | But she could also have written one of the following , which can more readily be considered variants of the original : [ 8 ] The discreet door closed with a click . |
| 14 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 15 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 16 | She was rarely pleased to see Damien , but at that moment she could cheerfully have driven red-hot nails into his ugly wedge of a face . |
| 17 | Marriage was essential for the young working-class girl , indeed an economic necessity , for she could scarcely have survived unmarried . |
| 18 | From her family 's point of view she could scarcely have chosen a more unsuitable lover . |
| 19 | Bitterly , she realised that her night at The Angel with Freddie Nash had shackled her in a way which , even if she had stopped to think about the possible consequences at the time , she could scarcely have envisaged . |
| 20 | For she could not have risen so far on her own . |
| 21 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
| 22 | If Jasper had been here she could not have done this , she would have had to adapt her pace to his … sometimes , very seldom , the thought came into her head : If I were alone , if I did not have Jasper to worry about … |
| 23 | Yet she could not have done so without the help of a young French countess , Sybille de la Borde . |
| 24 | Had she been a foreign agent , she could not have done it better . |
| 25 | He was still inside her , but softened and withdrawn , and she could not have said honestly that the experience was an exciting one . |
| 26 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 27 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 28 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 29 | She wanted to get it out , get it over and done with , and she could not have said anything worse . |
| 30 | Although why it should have plummeted to her feet at the mention of the unknown Joanna , she could not have said . |