Example sentences of "he could have got " in BNC.

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1 Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean .
2 Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that .
3 Why else had he come up to Tucker 's for fags when he could have got them closer to home ?
4 It would be a fitting tickle — if he could have got away with it .
5 Maybe he could have got away with it in his native Greek but not in English .
6 Communism had been his religion , the romantic , revolutionary communism of 1917 and Petrograd and the streets full of soldiers and sailors and workers and red flags and armoured cars that looked as if they were made of galvanised steel buckets , and the cruiser Aurora out on the river with its searchlight blazing — now there was a fairground panel he could have painted if only he could have got away with it — but it was n't the same any more .
7 Well now , fancy that , I wonder where he could have got to ?
8 It was no use — even if he could have got to his feet , he knew he 'd never be able to escape .
9 If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there .
10 There 's no way he could have got past that guard post . ’
11 Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance .
12 He could have got to the South Pole and back .
13 Crawling about disposing of the body , he could have got them dusty . ’
14 " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time .
15 He could have got one from the kitchen , but I expect he 'd locked up after he 'd brought the supper up . ’
16 ‘ And he could have got into the other parts ?
17 With his keys he could have got into any part . ’
18 He could have got a court order .
19 It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged .
20 He could have got away with fourteen months with remission . ’
21 yeah , and he went up the plot and he come back and he said cor you can have plenty old erm cold sheds that he could have got , I said what do you really think , I played a free hand , you mean mum and dad 's hand
22 He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
23 I bet he could have got it cheaper if he 'd have waited .
24 Cheek is n't it really , I mean he could have got the train could n't he ?
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