Example sentences of "could [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could 've done with you earlier , mate . ’ |
| 2 | But , I could 've done without them . |
| 3 | We could 've gone round my mother 's dinner . |
| 4 | She did n't even tell me herself — just left a note-anything could 've happened to her . ’ |
| 5 | It could 've happened to anybody . |
| 6 | He could see his room — the white walls , the shelf of shells , the ocean in the window — but they could 've belonged to anyone , they meant nothing . |
| 7 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 8 | So I mean you could 've got round it but you know you was good what you were doing but that 's where you lost yourself did n't you ? |
| 9 | ‘ Room service , ’ said the waiter , glancing down at the tip of the silencer he could see pointed at him from through the white cloth covering the lower part of the trolley . |
| 10 | He could have prepared for his appeal in the New Year by moping in his Kent mansion , but instead the man once hailed as the ‘ Clones Cyclone ’ wants to recapture the thrill of the ring in Britain 's most gruelling motor-sport event . |
| 11 | Jared Tunstall was distraught ; his much adored daughter had disappeared , but as was his usual way no one could have guessed at his inner feelings . |
| 12 | Because he could n't for the life of him imagine what he personally could have done to her . |
| 13 | Many are concerned with the Soviet Union 's place in the scheme of things ; with the poets ' sense of revulsion at what a nation could have done to itself ; with an intense probing of the values of nationhood and nationality . |
| 14 | Erm and they look quite good , but irritatingly I could have done with them , after the first workshop . |
| 15 | Sainz could have done with him yesterday , when his lead was slashed by a charging Pentti Airikkala . |
| 16 | They could have done with him , for example , in the NatWest Match with Northants at Swansea . |
| 17 | He could have done with something , fish and chips even , but the place was so goddamn countrified they probably did n't rise to things like that . |
| 18 | ‘ We could have done with you in Afghanistan . ‘ |
| 19 | ‘ I could have done with you around , you know . |
| 20 | ‘ Could have done with your help sooner . |
| 21 | And with hospital food also being the same the whole world over , I could have done with my own wife appearing outside with a food parcel . |
| 22 | His own , slightly flimsy explanation is , ‘ It was the only job I could have done with my vague , easily bored , butterfly mind . ’ |
| 23 | I could have done with it , I could n't get on the bloo they got this internal bus service that runs from each college , cos you have to go to the other colleges for your lectures , and I just sort , there 's not enough , and you , you get turned away , and I just thought , I went for that bus Tuesday morning , I was supposed to get it at eight fifteen , and he just said sorry , no more room . |
| 24 | If I could have done without it , I would have done . |
| 25 | I suppose someone thought it was a collectable item but we could have done without it |
| 26 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 27 | ‘ Hell 's teeth , Fabia , the least you could have done for me was to … ’ |
| 28 | In any case , as a result of the growing emphasis on patrilineal descent in all aristocratic families , even the noblest of wives could do less for an eleventh-century lord than she could have done for his grandfather . |
| 29 | Oh I tell you what he could have done for us have a look at that master that matchline thing . |
| 30 | 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 . |