Example sentences of "you could have been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dropped in , blindfolded , you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in Surrey were it not for the unmistakable twang of the Ulster accent . |
| 2 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 3 | You could have been forgiven for imagining , that Peter Nicholson had undergone surgery to replace his vocal chords with a megaphone . |
| 4 | Not long ago you could have been prosecuted for owning gold . |
| 5 | You could have been excused for believing that Maradonna had made a come back . |