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- v. Past participle form of both can do without and could do without.
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“I would have felt the same in her place, but I could have done without either Madame Montaigle or Uncle Armand as I lay sweating and cursing and crying, growing more exhausted and feverish with every passing hour, fighting to bring forth Matthew’s child, and failing.”
“I could have done without that, I thought-mentally, as it were, shaking myself to dispel the unwelcome sight from my mind.”
“Another month, two at the outside, and Eamon Valda would arrive from Tar Valon; Niall could have done without Valda, but then the great majority of the Children's strength would be in one spot, ready to use where it could do the most good.”
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