Example sentences of "that he could have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results confirm that he could have done very much better , but his mind was partly elsewhere , ever active , ever engaged , ever busy . |
| 2 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 3 | Lawson 's chosen weapon was the most politically damaging that he could have selected — successive increases in interest rates , to reach a minimum lending rate of 15 per cent by October 1989 , on the eve of the Tory party conference . |
| 4 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The man told him in sarcastic tones that he could have his £9 back at any time if he brought in the young lady in the photograph . |
| 7 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 8 | The fact that Hitler was out of Germany , at the Führer Headquarters in the east , and engaged in the conduct of the war against the Bolshevik arch-enemy — a war which he had long prophesied as inevitable in order to defend Christian Europe — evidently made it unthinkable for many that he could have anything to do with the ‘ godless Bolshevism ’ of the brownshirts at home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Duke told him he had given the trees priority over the house because they took longer to become established , but Kalm drily commented in his diary that his wealth was such that he could have built ‘ a most handsome castle in one year or less ’ . |
| 11 | Joseph was alarmed by Monteith 's message , and bewildered that he could have been so misunderstood at the previous council . |
| 12 | Frank Lindo replied that he could have left the cinema later than 5.30 , but he had definitely heard Drew in the theatre at 6.00 . |
| 13 | Even so , it is impossible that he could have evaded knowledge of the reality . |
| 14 | There was no question that he could have gone into some major productions and worked with some of the more notable directors ; he refused point blank , especially after seeing On a Clear Day . |
| 15 | As Stanley continued to have problems travelling around , largely because of his speech difficulties , his family ( in the United States ) bought him a treatment plinth so that he could have physiotherapy care at home . |
| 16 | None the less , the universality of this practice is attested by one wit who told Brown that he would like to die before him , so that he could have a look at heaven before Brown ‘ improved ’ it . |
| 17 | The possibility that the unfortunate young gentleman was waylaid seems inescapable ; he was , however , in possession of little , if any , money to attract the attention of would-be malefactors , and that he could have been attacked in broad daylight , in the middle of a city the size of Vienna , appears to us virtually incredible . ’ ' |
| 18 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
| 19 | Not that he could have put this into words . |
| 20 | He returned to the chateau , furious with himself that he could have allowed people to live in this way . |
| 21 | Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I ‘ m aware that he could have harmed me ! ’ she retorted . |
| 23 | James , a Macaulay Culkin lookalike , was n't at all sure that he could have coped on his own in New York . |
| 24 | Then in January 1879 the Mission School committee relented and informed his father that he could have a temporary post after all . |
| 25 | Actions like this only lead to bad feeling , especially when there are a number of established classics like Showtime , Urgent Action and The Ripper that he could have done instead . |
| 26 | Not that he could have avoided his post-breakfast greeting — they were daubed all over South Africa 's team bus , parked far too handily outside their Leicester hotel . |
| 27 | I thought that he could have telephoned me if it were unobtainable but apparently he had n't bothered , and the sheet music was indeed not to be had . |
| 28 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 29 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |