Example sentences of "could have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 2 | But England could have missed out on the youngster if he had chosen the country of his father 's birth . |
| 3 | ‘ Or you could have kept down on the platform , ’ Ace added . |
| 4 | Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy ; Mr Yeltsin has taken them on at their own game and beaten them . |
| 5 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 6 | I could have gone down to the café and talked literature with the lads , but there did n't seem to be much point without Jim and Anna . |
| 7 | Fatty : We could have turned up to the disco in these ! |
| 8 | THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect . |
| 9 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 10 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 11 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 12 | An inch higher and a thought quicker , and he could have climbed back down the rocks vindicated and free , with all his debts paid . |
| 13 | Unfortunately their advertising trade card is too detailed and any Resurrectionist worth his salt could have worked out from the illustration how best to break it open . |
| 14 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 15 | ‘ There was no way I could have got out of the car when I saw the lorry coming towards me , ’ Adam , 26 , said yesterday . |
| 16 | Dougal did n't struggle : even if he could have got out of the duvet , he would n't have stood a chance . |
| 17 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 18 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |