Example sentences of "[pron] could have [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished I could have screens put round my bed like the really sick people had , so that instead of giving me sidelong glances of pity because I had no visitors , people would drop their voices and whisper sepulchrally to interested outsiders , " Poor little thing — she 's dying , you know . " |
| 2 | I could have summonses every day if I chose . |
| 3 | Or I could have lychees . |
| 4 | I catapulted the tiny beasts across the creek and into the mud on the far side so that I could have funerals . |
| 5 | Two children from her husband 's first marriage were also staying , ‘ and if I could have pictures , ’ she says , ‘ I would have drawn the house with big bulges all over it . ’ |
| 6 | I I I I I doubt if you could have rules . |
| 7 | You could have earlies , lates and nights , which many people do n't know , and I worked earlies , lates and night in engineering . |
| 8 | Yeah , you could have loads , there 's , there 's loads of room if you , could ge if you , if you bring that do it in here |
| 9 | If you cut the wires on your equipment very short , it makes the whole effect tidier , but means that you could have problems if you shift the equipment around , or buy a larger tank , as the wires may not be long enough . |
| 10 | It could be dangerous because if you 're sucking water into acid you could have problems . |
| 11 | Pinky red You could have flowers all over your frog as well . |
| 12 | ‘ You could have ideas of hanging round this place , ’ Doreen persisted relentlessly , glancing at Silas as she did so . |
| 13 | I know that , I mean , er , we what Paul said , is basically that , we could have problems , if it , if it did go wrong . |
| 14 | There 's absolutely no reason why , if we provide the correct habitat , they should n't move down and we could have otters in the Thames region perhaps within the next 10 years . |
| 15 | Aye , we could have loads of young people together , and you could get loads of old people together er , |
| 16 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 17 | Mum to make the eyes mum we could have sultanas . |
| 18 | Sue Spiller , design director of Slix , feels this would blast open the creative possibilities : ‘ We could have swimsuits with long sleeves , polo-necks , even legs . ’ |
| 19 | And then we could have dances — grown-up ones , for the yokels and their sweethearts . |
| 20 | We could have books criticising royalty , and books praising royalty . |
| 21 | It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts . |
| 22 | On a military base , they could have eyes as well . |
| 23 | It estimates it could have revenues from its target markets like publishing and CAD/CAM worth $24m by 1996 . |
| 24 | ‘ It could have implications on our tour of Sri Lanka , ’ admitted TCCB chief executive Alan Smith . |
| 25 | The military life had suited him perfectly , for within the confines of an Air Force Base , he could have companions without forming friendships . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , just that … well , he could have children . ’ |
| 27 | He could have children sitting at his feet . |