Example sentences of "he could have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 2 | In 1958 Ken 's star was rising faster than anyone who had known him could have thought possible . |
| 3 | He could have quit last Wednesday when the party 's national executive rejected by a 21-3 vote his demands for a referendum and a rethink on the Maastricht treaty . |
| 4 | ‘ He could have done that easily . |
| 5 | And I felt absolutely horrified , devastated to think that he could have done that sort of damage and just walked away he did n't even have to pay for the damage he 'd done . |
| 6 | That they did not do and now the leader of the council said well they 're trying to get down to the standard spending assessment at last , he could have done that a long time ago , you have had nothing but excess expenditure proposals on behalf of this city for many , many years . |
| 7 | As that was a race in which Lotus , knowing that Fittipaldi was planning to leave , had given no team orders to Ronnie Peterson to be obliging to Fittipaldi , Ronnie won — as he could have done several times previously — and with Ronnie 's win , Fittipaldi was eliminated from the title race . |
| 8 | I wished he could have seen that . |
| 9 | He could have sent one detective-sergeant from his unit , but he felt personal about this . |
| 10 | Mosley repeatedly argued that his Blackshirt organization was a self-defence force and that although he could have disrupted other political meetings he never chose to do so . |
| 11 | But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals . |
| 12 | He could have gone all the way ’ his former coach Mahommed Aghredien said . |
| 13 | He could have developed that and it would have been tremendously useful to him . |
| 14 | He played so great , he could have shot 60 . |
| 15 | He could have drunk all night after that . |
| 16 | So while he could have given this kind old Cornish gentleman an eye-opening insight into the plans being made on the Continent of Europe to bring England back within Rome 's jurisdiction , he was content to let his host do most of the talking . |
| 17 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |
| 18 | He could have flung fifty paper-strippers at them now and they would n't have minded . |
| 19 | He could have felt superior and thought them all fools for pitying him for getting what he wanted . |
| 20 | Without it , I doubt if he could have undertaken such work is he did . |
| 21 | Not that he could have put this into words . |
| 22 | ‘ He could have blamed this and that but he said we deserved it . |
| 23 | It follows that if the buyer had paid he could have recovered that money . |
| 24 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 25 | He could have found some excuse for downgrading her . |
| 26 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 27 | I , he could have had that straight on the paper . |
| 28 | When Menzies opened the door to radio communication , he could have had little appreciation of one aspect of its future impact . |
| 29 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 30 | Look at the material he could have had this past year . |