Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] have [vb pp] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 2 | I could not have imagined a better companion . |
| 3 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 4 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 5 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 6 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 7 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
| 8 | Hollywood could not have created a better image of the middle ages . |
| 9 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 10 | Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’ |
| 11 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
| 12 | We had a beautiful Spring holiday on the Beauly Firth , and could not have chosen a better time to be there , with all the different kinds of foliage on the hillsides , and the spring flowers on the banks . |
| 13 | The 39-year-old Briton could not have got a better start to his new career with the Indycar team owned by Paul Newman and Carl Haas , but now has every driver on his tail . |
| 14 | After the majestic setting of Old Trafford , Middlesbrough could not have expected a greater contrast than Roots Hall . |
| 15 | QUEEN OF SHANNON had tears and not champagne flowing by winning at Salisbury yesterday — but she could not have picked a better moment . |
| 16 | If he were going to humiliate her , he could not have picked a better opportunity . |
| 17 | He started up twenty years ago , he could not have picked a better time . |
| 18 | ‘ Richard Cawston 's film could not have had a better critical reception if it had been the combined work of Eisenstein , Hitchcock and Fellini , ’ wrote the critic in the Evening Standard . |
| 19 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 20 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 21 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 22 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |
| 23 | He could n't have said a truer word . |
| 24 | I could n't have arranged a better still life . |
| 25 | I could n't have arranged a better still life . |
| 26 | He could n't have picked a better place : laid to rest in Père Lachaise alongside such genuine nineteenth-century bohos as Gérard de Nerval , who took his pet lobster for walks in the Palais Royal and eventually hanged himself with a piece of string he insisted was the Queen of Sheba 's garter . |
| 27 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 28 | ‘ But I could n't have chosen a better house than this flat . ’ |
| 29 | The kidnappers could n't have chosen a better day . |
| 30 | If Rune had set out deliberately to enrage her he could n't have chosen a better way . |