Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only would the creature regenerate severed scraps of its body into new limbs , not only would gobbets of its substance give rise to more of it , but in some fashion — through the medium of the warp — its substance could remain connected together , could still function as a unit even when slashed apart . |
| 2 | We could 've played outside , could n't we ? |
| 3 | You could 've done right , okay , well you 're here now anyway . |
| 4 | Here , where I could 've done better , if only I 'd understood , if only he 'd helped me ; if only this , if only that . |
| 5 | Rufus looks great , could 've done more with the aliens |
| 6 | They could 've done more with the ‘ ol wizard too : unable to use most of the flashy weapons from the armoury , he accumulates huge amounts of dosh as he has nothing to spend it on . |
| 7 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 8 | The A4 contains a good variety of usable sounds in both user and preset modes , and with the A4 plugged into a Boogie combo and using an Aria ‘ Mad Axe ’ I could 've headed straight to the gig . |
| 9 | Well I did n't think they could 've gone straight into socialization because they did n't have the resources to . |
| 10 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 11 | I mean I went straight in , tell me about your wife , I mean you could 've said well she 's not my wife |
| 12 | I mean in , in , in retrospect they probably could 've achieved it because they , they got the military er they , they , they did get the military security and you probably could 've afforded actually to , to mobilize the peasants through land reform . |
| 13 | I could 've come earlier cos I 've been over Tracey 's since quarter past one , as I was coming out the Jehovah Witnesses were coming out |
| 14 | Yeah , I I ca n't think of any other things that you know that would have led to us sort of withdrawing our labour , e everything else could 've settled amicably or through discussions with the union . |
| 15 | The thing I noticed was that they 're all close questions , you like the area , now Martin was very fair to you because you , he was very me most you could 've got very much did you move because of your , yes . |
| 16 | I 've operated er , various positions on the Celtic fringe , and I could 've replied briefly to my colleague from Wales in |
| 17 | What caitif could haue caused so foul a showe ? |
| 18 | The bright brown eyes rested on her and you could see written all over his face the jealousy that this girl , daughter to some man , was still alive while his child was gone . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr. Kopek , I did n't know you had it in you , ’ was the phrase I could see written all over her expression . |
| 20 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 21 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 22 | The slanderous epitaph Burns wrote for John Brown of Mauchline could have applied equally as well to the poet himself : |
| 23 | I wish I could give these women their time again , to take them to the hills and show them what they could have shared with their selfish husbands , show them how a ridge-walk compares to a coffee morning in a draughty church hall , and how they could have become more in tune with their spirit and feelings up here than stuck down there watching television soap operas . |
| 24 | Therefore , if the origin of the phenomenon is as recent as the late eighteenth century , it is difficult to explain how it could have become so geographically widespread in so short a time : it was already highly salient and overtly stigmatized by the latter half of the nineteenth century ( for some citations see Phillipps , 1984 , 136–9 ) . |
| 25 | I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions . |
| 26 | Some could have increased overtime working , but for those using continuous or semi-continuous production processes this was technically difficult , and for those employing mainly women infeasible . |
| 27 | So no-one could have guessed really what was on underneath here . |
| 28 | After studying large numbers of systems of kinship terms and placing them in an evolutionary sequence , partly in terms of their characteristics , partly in terms of the technological level reached by the societies from which they originated , Morgan felt confident that he had discovered a governing tendency in the history of human marriage : as social evolution progressed , the number of legitimate sexual partners a man or a woman could have diminished progressively , finally producing monogamy — the permanent union of one man and one woman . |
| 29 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 30 | Blake tried to persuade him that there was little he could have done anyway , but the time traveller would not agree . |