Example sentences of "she could [vb infin] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could 've smoked ci er cigarillos , she could 've smoked a pipe , yeah , erm tt with regards to working , you did ask did she work but is sh she is a tax payer , she was n't because it 's pin money . |
| 2 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 3 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 4 | She could have kicked a dog . |
| 5 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 6 | ‘ But I was surprised at her type ; you would think she could have got a job , a decent one somewhere . |
| 7 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 8 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |