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How to use could have in a sentence

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Several times, Niane could have sworn she saw a person at the end of a passage, but she accredited it to the poor lighting.
Often patients fail to turn up without any warning and it means their slot, which could have been taken by someone else, goes to waste.
It was redamancy. It was heaven. It was peace. It was more than he could have ever hoped for or wanted.
And I probably could have walked it if I hadn't consigned all the really depressing stuff to a dusty corner of the web where you can't see it.
It found two spots where accelerants could have been used and police took away samples for analysis.
I thought the garden was walled all round, but there is a breach in the wall at the back which a healthy animal could have hurdled.
Anderson's absences caused by knee problems down through the years have not proved the handicaps they could have been.
If anyone could have dreamed up an unlikely idea like the Wooden Horse and wangled his way into Troy, he would have.
Kids being kids, they asked if they could have chips, but the ubiquitous fried potato was absent from this particular hostelry.
If I hadn't wakened and it had got up to the roof the whole house could have been burned.
This could have happened over a short space of time or over a number of years.
He said there was no way the two cars could have been abreast of each other on the night.
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The pictures of our abode, the Eco House, could have come from a glossy interiors mag or a coffee table tome, even though I say so myself.
It was conceivable the washout could have occurred only an hour before the boys drove down the track.
Richard II could have been written at any point up to a matter of weeks before the registering of the first quarto.
A number of experts have stated that high winds could have been a factor in driving the ship off course.
The second day, we could have legitimately reported flights were taking off round the clock day and night.
She wanted to wait a year before accepting the position, so she could have time to be home with her baby.
Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck.
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