Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you could 've , you could 've apacked that a bit , a bit more , to put in the er words of the day , to find out you know what was worrying him and , and what his problems were on that . |
| 2 | Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around . |
| 3 | Anyone seeing the second round of Ingle and Choi must have wondered how anyone could have decided that the Korean had won that round 5-2 . |
| 4 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 5 | Jerome , the blue-jeaned bumboy with earring and dyed blonde " Of course , " he said , continuing to cut his food crisply , " you could have argued that the man was being exploited too . |
| 6 | " Of course , " he said , continuing to cut his food crisply , " you could have argued that the man was being exploited too . |
| 7 | They do not want hundreds of readers ' letters complaining that the product can not be obtained in Manchester , when the release could have stated that the product was on test market in London and the South-East . |
| 8 | No one , of course , could have imagined that the boycott was proceeding without Hitler 's express support . |
| 9 | Few , however , could have imagined that the man who once served as chairman of Clitheroe Young Conservatives would be asked to don the cocked hat and plumes of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda . |
| 10 | No one could have imagined that the simple kindness of two individuals and a rescue society would call the British judicial system into question — and cost so much |
| 11 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 12 | Even in an age where appearances are sometimes not all they seem we could have sworn that every one was — the naughty word seems inescapable — a woman . |
| 13 | He could have sworn that the voice had been that of Christine Ashdown . ) |
| 14 | Only the most starry-eyed optimist could have supposed that the Union of the Crowns and then , at last , the Act of Union in 1707 making the two countries one would somehow bring immediate peace in a region with such memories . |
| 15 | Who in 1216 , when Innocent died , could have predicted that the agreements would be torn up and that the popes would face another onslaught from an unreliable and unprincipled emperor ? |
| 16 | Who indeed could have forecast that the Provincial sector would be announcing such an improvement in their financial situation resulting from rapid but targeted investment in new trains , with the prime objective of cost reduction ? |
| 17 | Dilettante 's answer would have been better if he could have shown that the Wilts case , though apparently relevant , was not conclusive on the question . |
| 18 | It could have meant that the Capetians acknowledged that they possessed no realizable claims to the allodial duchy of Gascony . |
| 19 | There is no evidence that they could have anticipated that the son would intercept the letters under cover of which the legal charge and other documents were forwarded . |
| 20 | The little evidence I could obtain suggested that the explanation was the usual one in criminal justice short-comings : a rising demand not met with increasing resources . |