Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [pron] [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could speak I would have said , ‘ Elizabeth , Elizabeth , go back into the shadows , get out of the light , hide your shining face in the shadows . ’ |
| 2 | I can not I can not do I can not differentiate that I 'll tell you what I could do I 'd have no problem at all if you gave me something Y equals U squared no problem |
| 3 | For all Wexford knew or could remember there might have been a bank robbery in that city at that time . |
| 4 | It was a big relief because everyone could see we should have won it . ’ |
| 5 | In another few months Nahum could see he would have to resign his Governorship , if only to save the expense of his weekly journeys by train . |
| 6 | Well , if the norm in the Church was the Bishop and Miss Tilley , you could see she 'd have a fair amount of concealing to do . |
| 7 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 8 | They could have they could have even faxed it . |
| 9 | It could have it could have some more shopping , it could have another primary school , it could have a rail link , or some other public transport link . |
| 10 | You could have you could have open land within within a village , it does n't necessarily mean it 's open countryside . |
| 11 | You could have you could have made it work . |
| 12 | Well I mean you could have you could have one in here . |
| 13 | I was I was so angry and and I see him a out and about and when I first saw him about I could have I could have run him down . |
| 14 | With this freedom , much could happen which would have been impossible under Lanfranc . |
| 15 | The Sheehy plan could mean he would have to stay to 60 to get a full pension . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ If the parrot could talk it might have said something unpleasant about having its wings clipped . ’ |
| 17 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 18 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |