Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't have a quarter of it . |
| 2 | I must admit , it 's never ever let me down but I mean , they know if ever they said I could n't have no money I 'd cause one hell of a stink you know ! |
| 3 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 4 | I could n't have the baby in there , for example . |
| 5 | Perhaps I could rule Scotland without a man , but I could not have a child without one . |
| 6 | If I could perhaps have a picture my father painted ? ’ |
| 7 | I could then have a shoal of adult Uaru , and that is a dream I would n't mind realising . |
| 8 | Yes , we 've covered various subjects er more than once , er so much so that er I would be much obliged if you would er focus on a particular instance that I could then have an opportunity to recall . |
| 9 | I do n't know if I could ever have a relationship , the way I feel about my body . |
| 10 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 11 | She could n't have er she could n't have a feather pillow . |
| 12 | Her nanny , though , was once stopped in the street by someone demanding to know how she could possibly have a child by a black man . |
| 13 | A pond does n't have to be large to be effective — if it 's big enough to install a small submersible pump you could even have a fountain . |
| 14 | When we did all work together , all the different pieces worked together , and you could just have a card each and you could have just done it that way . |
| 15 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 16 | If the chain proves popular you could soon have a Food Giant near you . |
| 17 | You could n't have a discussion |
| 18 | I mean you could n't have a meeting with the whole Catholic Church for example to decide on doctrine . |
| 19 | But if you 'd , if the original sum assured was only sixty thousand , you could only have a quarter , so you could only have fifteen thousand pounds maximum . |
| 20 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 21 | I mean , to die is not absolutely correct there is it , because I mean you could actually have a pay-out on critical illness , which happens earlier . |
| 22 | So you could literally have a situation in which you could live say er er a woman could er live er you know a mile from the state line and in one state er abortion er could be something which ended up with a doctor in prison for life , in another state , across the state line , it could be something which was er you know er provided free of charge by the state public health authorities . |
| 23 | Yeah because then you could have that , you could like have a story board for that advert that you thought of . |
| 24 | You could always have a bit of fun with Bill , people said . |
| 25 | T. D. You could always have a cigarette if you wanted it but if you got caught , you were in trouble . |
| 26 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 27 | Perhaps we could just have a look at what sort of angles we 've got here . |
| 28 | Never saw , you were n't meant to , and he says , no your mum said that we could either have a sweet or a starter , not both . |
| 29 | When it was being drawn up ‘ we agreed we could n't have a cash limit and we never said there would be a cash limit ’ . |
| 30 | Having done a railway trip together to the West Somerset Railway to celebrate our Silver Wedding anniversary , at a time when we could n't have a party , my wife and I recently held a belated one at the Gwili Railway , ably assisted by family , friends and some members of the BCRS committee . |