Example sentences of "could [adv] have [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inconceivable that Eliza would have married Wickham , just as Lucy could only have married George . |
| 2 | They could comfortably have accommodated Shostakovich 's other ‘ happy ’ Symphony ( No. 9 ) , particularly if these two releases are the fist in a complete cycle . |
| 3 | George made a great sacrifice by killing Lennie as the people chasing him were very angry and could easily have killed George through their anger . |
| 4 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |
| 5 | If they did not and Harris had been free to work for a GUS company which was not in the mail order business he could still have passed Littlewoods ' business secrets back to the mail order companies because of the structure of the GUS group . |
| 6 | Theoretically she could also have told Fiona on the telephone who could have told Nolan or Lewis , but it was n't the sort of item one would naturally bother to pass on . |
| 7 | What will the regular supporters of Manchester United and Leeds United think if either club are denied victory in the Championship because of the greed of some players who could probably have saved Aldershot from their creditors with money from their back pockets ? |
| 8 | If Telecom really wanted to get a cost-effective solution to a 60,000 square foot head office requirement , it could simply have bought Montrose House on Adelaide Road two years earlier than it bought the Ballsbridge site . |
| 9 | Attlee , Churchill , and Eden , as Prime Ministers in the 1950s , could well have repeated Churchill 's own words , uttered during a wartime speech at the Mansion House in the City of London in November 1942 , ‘ I have not become the King 's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire . ' |
| 10 | And I told Heathcliff to his face that he could never have made Catherine happy , if she had been his wife . |