Example sentences of "she could have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor .
3 She could have kicked a dog .
4 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 .
5 ‘ But I was surprised at her type ; you would think she could have got a job , a decent one somewhere .
6 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 .
7 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 !
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