Example sentences of "not have [vb pp] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not have received better treatment anywhere in the world . |
| 2 | It could not have gone worse for him when , in the 57th minute , he froze . |
| 3 | The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results . |
| 4 | The immediate suspects of the murder were a local man and his son ; but both these men could not have had stronger alibis , for the father was in hospital after having an operation on his hip bone , while his son had three days previously been called into the Forces . |
| 5 | If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse . |
| 6 | ‘ I should n't have brought Bowyer here , ’ he moaned . |