Example sentences of "could have [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 2 | Pity it was n't in the national newspapers because my lawyer said I could have retired on the proceeds . |
| 3 | This is , of course , wrong as we could have guessed on the basis of our experience with forces acting upon capacitor plates . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is extremely useful to have universities , polys and colleges compared on an equal basis , particularly as in these days of cutbacks many , who in earlier years could have relied on a university place , may have to hedge their bets by applying to polys too . |
| 5 | When this happens , the social opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the public project is the return that households could have obtained on the same resources . |
| 6 | Instead , they could have stayed on the side they were flying and made a right , instead of a left circuit , with height to spare . |
| 7 | A drop of petrol could have fallen on the lamp bulb and shattered it to expose its white hot filament which would have ignited the vapours . |
| 8 | They could have lived on a tropic isle . |
| 9 | The hip and knee indicate that she could have existed on the ground , providing evidence that she was close to the point of divergence . |
| 10 | Kevin could have slept on the other side |
| 11 | ‘ Once she was a hit , we could have sat on the first contract and made more money from her . |
| 12 | The school 's head teacher , Diane Wilson says although they could have parked on the double yellow lines outside the ice rink , it would have been unfair to other vehicles as well as dangerous for the children . |