Example sentences of "she could [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could easily have noble blood , she looked the sort . |
| 2 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 3 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 4 | Now obviously Elizabeth Taylor can demand her own terms — she 's one of the biggest stars in the world and she could easily have been a prima donna . |
| 5 | If she was n't hungry enough to be interested in food , she could easily have flown off . |
| 6 | She could easily have given me the push after her dad died , and taken on somebody … well , more presentable , like . ’ |
| 7 | She could easily have wept as messily and uselessly as Monica . |
| 8 | It had stopped raining , and she could easily have walked ; but she let Ben drive her , slowly , talking about Jake all the way . |
| 9 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 10 | At least I did not recognize her ; but then she was such a shrinking , washed-out-creature — when later I had lunch with one of Eliot 's former doctors he described her as ‘ an ugly little thing ’ , which was rather unkind and hardly accurate — that she could easily have escaped notice . |
| 11 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 12 | Why go to all the trouble of providing her with information about Rainald , which she could easily have related to fitzAlan ? |
| 13 | If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there . |
| 14 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 17 | But she could also have written one of the following , which can more readily be considered variants of the original : [ 8 ] The discreet door closed with a click . |
| 18 | She was rarely pleased to see Damien , but at that moment she could cheerfully have driven red-hot nails into his ugly wedge of a face . |
| 19 | It was a summer afternoon — she could barely have been more than eight years old — and she had come to the Lodge with her brother and their cousin , Laetitia , who was visiting the Hall with her parents . |
| 20 | From her family 's point of view she could scarcely have chosen a more unsuitable lover . |
| 21 | Bitterly , she realised that her night at The Angel with Freddie Nash had shackled her in a way which , even if she had stopped to think about the possible consequences at the time , she could scarcely have envisaged . |
| 22 | Marriage was essential for the young working-class girl , indeed an economic necessity , for she could scarcely have survived unmarried . |
| 23 | She said to me when they find out what it is she could soon have you on your feet , but she thought it were that shadow on me lung . |
| 24 | She could not have failed to hear them . |
| 25 | However , she recently asked what it was all for if she could not have a child . |
| 26 | Even if she could not have so persuaded herself it would have made no difference . |
| 27 | She could not have had an easy childhood . |
| 28 | She could not have been very old when I first knew her , but I thought of her as old , partly because her hair was pure white . |
| 29 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 30 | She felt excluded from their world even though she could not have been better informed ; the trouble was Ferdinando still belonged to that world . |