Example sentences of "could have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could 've done with you earlier , mate . ’ |
| 2 | I could 've done with that ! |
| 3 | I , I and you could 've done with a queen . |
| 4 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 5 | I could 've done without the naughty words in the scrolly , but this is a minor niggle ( prude ! — Ed ) — Dutch Breeze 1 & 2 are mighty fine demos . |
| 6 | But , I could 've done without them . |
| 7 | Er Harry Truman could 've run for the presidency in nineteen fifty two but chose not to . |
| 8 | I could 've run with that . |
| 9 | I could 've ended up doing that . ’ |
| 10 | We could 've gone to Maggie 's … . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You could 've gone to Memet 's uncle 's place , ’ said Constance . |
| 12 | I could 've gone to hospital |
| 13 | You mean they could 've , they could 've gone for the Soviet style collectivization ? |
| 14 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 15 | they perhaps could 've gone towards more |
| 16 | We could 've gone round my mother 's dinner . |
| 17 | and could 've gone round the corner for |
| 18 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 19 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 20 | Well I could 've bought with that |
| 21 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 22 | It could 've happened to anybody . |
| 23 | She did n't even tell me herself — just left a note-anything could 've happened to her . ’ |
| 24 | He could see his room — the white walls , the shelf of shells , the ocean in the window — but they could 've belonged to anyone , they meant nothing . |
| 25 | Erm also the accountant you could 've tried to of got round because you were , you were digging the hole there erm you know where he 's , okay he wants to see the accountant , will this be a good idea I mean you could 've said yeah you know you appreciate that and all the rest of it and you could 've gone more into the tax side of where you , you know , you could 've perhaps er the company could 've benefited by putting some into the pension scheme as opposed erm paying all the taxes maybe you could 've gone in that way . |
| 26 | Now then , if the council could , could 've come to some agreement and put in there , it would of made it right for us , now , you see we 've done so before , this is what I do n't like about he , he applies for planning permission does er the notice was no bigger than six inches long and four |
| 27 | He could 've come in the shop and bought them , yeah . |
| 28 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 29 | So I mean you could 've got round it but you know you was good what you were doing but that 's where you lost yourself did n't you ? |
| 30 | That trip must have revived Nicolae 's memories of his time in Stalin 's Moscow , but the frenzied adulation of Mao surpassed anything that Ceauşescu could have witnessed in the Soviet Union . |