Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv] [adj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |
| 2 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 3 | He had been so close she could have almost touched him . |
| 4 | All she was capable of doing was gazing at him , hardly aware of her own nakedness , while her eyes and her mind told her that , far from having to pay for women 's favours , if Rune Christensen had been so inclined he could have made a fortune as a gigolo . |
| 5 | If the boss had been more assertive he could have said something like , ‘ I would appreciate some more help . |