Example sentences of "she could have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wonder whether erm I think that stool there might have been better to have her sitting on that one , not quite so high up and she could have adopted a more comfortable pose and she would n't have needed another prop for her foot . |
| 2 | The fact is , for a lot less money and pain she could have achieved a far more dramatic improvement in her appearance . |
| 3 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 4 | In the ensuing silence she could have heard a flea move in the rushes on the floor . |
| 5 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 6 | She always said she could have done a better job running the place than the Director or his boss , Controller Establishment Research and Nuclear . |
| 7 | She could have kicked a dog . |
| 8 | If only she could have waved a magic wand to turn the fat girl into a raving beauty . |
| 9 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 10 | ‘ But I was surprised at her type ; you would think she could have got a job , a decent one somewhere . |
| 11 | But for her insistence on being free for Dickie 's holidays she could have had a ward sister 's job in Benedict 's by just picking up the nearest telephone . |
| 12 | But time was when she could have commanded a grown man to do her errands and pay her debts . ’ |
| 13 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 14 | She could have chosen a quite unsuitable family for you , and the social workers would have taken you away . |
| 15 | She could have married a fine young fella , he thought bitterly , with a grand house and a slice of West Meath to go with it , but Frank saw him off . |