could have

You could have had a mother that did not want to get pregnant and resented the father.

I could have saved him, and--and-- well , you know how the town was wrought up--I hadn't the pluck to do it.

The least they could have done was to let us say hello.

When Labour won the General Election in 1997 I thought it was the best thing that could have happened to the UK.

I tried again. "You don't seem to be very anxious for yourself, " I said. "You could have been shot. "

Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

South Vietnam, he says, could have been saved if America had not cut off military aid to its government.

By learning to make my fears insignificant, I've been able to make much faster progress than I could have done otherwise.

If it had not been of limited duration there could have been no promise of eternal life to perfect obedience.

If you could have made (=If you had been able to make) him change his mind, you would have saved him a lot of trouble.

Who could have supposed you were going to do such a thing?

We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. We could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses.

It was not immediately clear what caused the vessel to sink. Officials say severe weather and high seas could have been a factor.

That man must have the strength of a hippopotamus, or he never could have vanquished that great beast.

It hit me right near my temple and doctors told me that if the pellet had gone slightly to the right or left, I could have been killed.

Think about what you can do, not about what you could have done.

I wondered if I could have done something differently or what else might have happened with some one that crazy.

This campaign started very badly for us, even if it wasn't our fault, and could have had a bad ending.

Raul Garcia 6 - In a scrappy midfield display by Atletico he rarely put his foot on the ball, although could have scored with a good drive.

But Nokia could have made it just a bit more bearable if they were willing to put customers first and profits second.

Until a year ago, Mr Murdoch could have written the same thing to his own editors and been believed. He cannot now.

Certainly in Butte the best free fun you could have on your own was to make a bike do wild things over the mine-riddled hills.

You could have heard a pin drop when he finished. Even the show's moderator didn't have anything to say for a few moments.

Printing made it possible to produce more copies in a few weeks than could have been produced in a lifetime written out by hand.

In one a man called Fawaz was shot in the leg. He could have been saved but he could not be got to hospital and bled to death.

If you make a statement that you later realize was negative, confrontational or rude, think of how you could have phrased the statement.

The second thing is we could have placed greater emphasis on coaching rather than leave it up to the projects to ask for coaching.

At the end we were counter-attacking and with a bit more quality we could have won it.

"Yeah, sure, he could have been a psycho, a killer, " says Jennifer over breakfast.

"You know, we could have had a hundred smart people sitting here for a year and never come up with a lot of that stuff, " Mr. Zoellick says.

This could have been a worrisome development, to say the least, since he was personally committed to pay the $150, 000 in tuition.

'But Britain could have won the war by 1942 using the same technology, if the RAF had not rejected Whittle's designs at the outset. '

Lloyd: I could have the place tented today, sprayed tomorrow and you could be back in here by Monday.

Who could have thought that such a pretty rose could grow in a porter's lodge, or bloom in that dismal old flower-pot of a Shepherd's Inn?

Nor do they have the striations caused by a rough abrasive that could have been used to achieve the exact geometries they demonstrate.

It would have been so easy for him: he could have made a comfortable home for himself in commercially viable, action-thriller roles.

Still, there are concerns about how much influence the governor's office could have on the new parole board.

Presumably, the critics thought Nussbaum could have been trying to influence the RTC proceedings.

You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you.

I believe that things happen for a reason. There is no way someone could have said my number in the pub, but he had that number in his head.

Lack of money is the worst part of any artist career, and having another form of income is the best thing an artist could have.

None but a real Princess could have had such a delicate sense of feeling.

He said that he felt that the translation we had done of Nausicaa was "as perfect as could have been made. "

He could have but one, namely, that of supremacy without contestation and without controversy.

Even allowing for the most generous expenses, there was no way he could have spent more than half of what was coming in.

The researchers estimate that the total yield of cattle and tortoise meat, at least 17 kilograms, could have fed 35 or more people.

He could have complained to the top about my basic lack of professionalism but instead he went out of his way to try and help me.

Fonterra could have gone public nearly six weeks earlier but Mr Ferrier insists that the wiser course was to work within the system.

Back in the 1920s, you could have seen all this at New York City's famous Hippodrome Theater.

When he started telling everybody about the time I fell down in the middle of the love scene in the school play, I could have died.

Moreover, your existence wastes translation time. This time could have been used for more meaningful matters.

If it had not rained so hard yesterday, we could have played tennis.

but I wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt.

If we lose the feeling is even worse because you think about what you could have done differently.

But as I said to her, these boys could have been anybody and we wouldn't have had a clue.

"They could have stood there and done nothing and I'd have been happy, " he said of the group.

Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.

Zach Howell, president of the College Republican National Committee, could have said the same thing two years ago.

But a lot of it was luck: it could have been any one of those guys.

If he had been more careful, such mistakes could have been avoided. Had he been more careful, such mistakes could have been avoided.

The moment Logan hit the ground should have been the end of this story rather than one more beginning I could have chosen.

You could have made her colour, any day in the year, by calling her a rank egoist.

"You could have knocked on that door until hell freezes over and he was not going to let you in, " she said.

The potential, however, is clear: the Facebook data could have been used to deanonymise the browsing histories associated with the cookies.

But only a man of such wealth and wisdom as Solomon could have gone through all the experiences recorded here.

She says that there is no way I could have caused it, that it's my parents' problem when my mom interrupts her to say "Yes she did. "

I could have asked him to take the books with him; it's too late now, though.

Brown says branding his campaign early on was one of the best things he could have done.

I could have shown you around the city if I had known you were in Beijing.

They couldn't understand how their little girl could have strayed so far off the path they had laid for her.

Now you tell her to her face that you could have stayed to meet her and you would not.

He took his goals well and he could have had more but his overall performance was good.

It could have been Credit Crunch Round Two. There was bound to be relief at avoiding that.

Returning along the garden path Tess mused on what the mother could have wished to ascertain from the book on this particular day.

I could have easily ended this battle the moment it started but it's been ages since I've been able to toy with a mortal.

A careful investigation failed to determine the cause of the explosion, it could have been accidental or sabotage.

However, people familiar with the matter discount the notion that there were steps Bain could have taken to get the transaction approved.

At least 60% of these deaths could have been prevented by just a handful of inexpensive measures.

The fear of finishing out of the money and hearing someone say, "Wait, you mean to tell me you could have and you didn't? "

"If anyone could have calmly figured out how to get out ofthe towers from up high, " she said, "it would have been him. "

Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.

Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

However, people familiar with the matter discount the notion that there were steps Bain could have taken to get the transaction approved.

At least 60% of these deaths could have been prevented by just a handful of inexpensive measures.

The fear of finishing out of the money and hearing someone say, "Wait, you mean to tell me you could have and you didn't? "

"If anyone could have calmly figured out how to get out ofthe towers from up high, " she said, "it would have been him. "

It contributes to a higher illiteracy rate, since money that could have been used for education is spent on tobacco instead.

But anybody could have created that site with a false registration, just as anybody could pose as somebody else on a blog or Facebook page.

Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.

Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

"If anyone could have calmly figured out how to get out ofthe towers from up high, " she said, "it would have been him. "

It contributes to a higher illiteracy rate, since money that could have been used for education is spent on tobacco instead.

But anybody could have created that site with a false registration, just as anybody could pose as somebody else on a blog or Facebook page.

I saw the car slowly inclined to stop on the left side of the road, opposite a few cars could have foreseen all this, first stop in tight.

Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.

Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

I saw the car slowly inclined to stop on the left side of the road, opposite a few cars could have foreseen all this, first stop in tight.

B: Well, to be honest, I think you could have done a better job. It was a little dry.

Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.

Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

Yet he gave Pareto credit for identifying it as "universal" when, it seemed, he could have taken the credit himself.

Let them tell you about how things work, and what you could have done better.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

Sorry, traveler's check are not allowed to be cashed in our hotel. You could have this service in the bank.

This error, if it had been left uncorrected, could have led to a potential loss of bookings equating to $3 million per year.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

In the beginning you could have taken the left foot up. There was no binding order.

But if the satellite fell even five minutes later than estimated, some of it could have hit land, he said.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

"To tell the truth, it is more than we could have imagined, " he said.

She could have been a brilliant pianist if she put her mind to it.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

"I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, " I said. "He could have. "

To his beloved girl, he chose the same university, and he could have been a better school.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

But it still seems much too easy to provoke the Chinese - even a simple remark or sentence could have all sorts of unintended consequences .

He said afterwards: "It was amazing. . . . I could have gone on and on. Space, here I com. "

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

A logical next step was to be Governor, a post he could have had for the asking.

There's a moment in God's conversation with Cain that makes us wonder if there could have been a different ending to this story.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

But if he did not speak, then nothing could have happened, could it?

In hind sight it's easy to see where we screwed up and where we possibly could have made things better.

if only you could have him for a husband, you would be well provided for, but unfortunately he cannot see.

I could have been a doctor, I could have been a lawyer, but I choose to be a teacher.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

But if he did not speak, then nothing could have happened, could it?

In hind sight it's easy to see where we screwed up and where we possibly could have made things better.

If some Chinese politicians had not been at loggerheads with one another, China could have become a superpower.

Nevertheless, getting both cars in the points is a strong showing from us, even if we could have been looking for a few more points today.

I could have been a lawyer; but I chose to be a teacher.

This story told in a different style and with a realistic look could have been a great science-fiction film.

When you look back at your own past to long ago, you are more likely to see things you should have or could have done.

I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasn't going to be around long enough for it to matter.

But if he did not speak, then nothing could have happened, could it?

In hind sight it's easy to see where we screwed up and where we possibly could have made things better.

If some Chinese politicians had not been at loggerheads with one another, China could have become a superpower.

Nevertheless, getting both cars in the points is a strong showing from us, even if we could have been looking for a few more points today.

The study shows the wind might have pushed back both waterways. That could have made a pathway on the sea floor for Moses' people to cross.

He will never tell anyone out loud, but in his heart he thinks he could have been better than Kobe if he was allowed to shoot more.