Example sentences of "could [adv] have gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not have gone without her goodwill , as it could have been injurious to her already poor health . |
| 2 | Presumably the passing of over three thousand horsemen could not have gone entirely unnoticed , even of a winter 's night , but discretion in such situations was another and necessary Border virtue , and no alarm was raised in the hamlets and farm-touns which they could not avoid , however many dogs barked . |
| 3 | It could not have gone worse for him when , in the 57th minute , he froze . |
| 4 | Without their support we could not have gone very far . |
| 5 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 6 | For they could not have gone on haunting her . |
| 7 | Had he not done so I could not have gone to Eton , and should have been deprived of one of the most formative influences in my life . |
| 8 | It is possible that due to replacement of ageing springs and ropes the organs originally went somewhat slower , but they could not have gone slower by much because the bellows are linked with the barrels ' rotation too slow a pace means that insufficient air circulates for the pipes to speak . |
| 9 | No , no , I could not have gone it er America . |
| 10 | I could easily have gone on . |
| 11 | He could easily have gone into London and enjoyed the jollifications . |
| 12 | They won it clearly after Spence and McCloskey were out-pointed on decisions that could easily have gone the other way . |
| 13 | One of the questions I asked myself was what could possibly have gone wrong ? |
| 14 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 15 | Their arrival could hardly have gone unremarked , preceded as they were by a number of attendants with trunks , hatboxes and assorted luggage , a little yapping pomeranian on a lead … |
| 16 | Had Prince Charles been an innocent party in the breakdown of his marriage , he could still have gone on to take not only the throne but the leadership of the C of E. But he is not . |
| 17 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 18 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 19 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 20 | It was armed with back-up retardants , could n't have gone maverick . |
| 21 | I could n't have gone any further . |
| 22 | He could n't have gone far in such a short time . |
| 23 | She always said she could n't have gone to Brownies at all if she had n't been able to cycle , for the distance was too far for her to walk , and there was no bus . |
| 24 | We could n't have gone in daylight for fear that Dad would be spotted and reported to the relief officers ; then as now claimants were not allowed to earn money . |
| 25 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 26 | There was no need to go biting Hawkbit : he could n't have gone back if he 'd tried . |
| 27 | It could n't have gone better . |
| 28 | She could n't have gone too far . |
| 29 | I could n't have gone to a better place because they 'd got most parts of the country and one thing and another and I fitted their bill to a tee . |
| 30 | But she knew she could n't have gone and left Jeff in such a fix . |