Example sentences of "she could [verb] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not that Paige cared ; all she could feel was the pain in her ankle .
2 The nearest she could recall was the booming of the big 'gators in the Florida swamps where she had once been trained .
3 All she could recall was the feeling of rejection .
4 She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons .
5 She could have been a kitchen maid for all we know and your children …
6 She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country .
7 She could have been a stranger .
8 She swivelled round on her heel , and struck a pose with her left hip thrown sideways , and her cigarette hand extended in a rather classical way She could have been a model , people always said so .
9 The mask of helmet and balaclava beneath meant that all she could see were the man 's eyes and mouth — but his eyes shone a lustrous dark brown and his lips were fine sculpted .
10 He was wrapped in so much of the duvet all she could see was the top of his head .
11 She peered out through the hole but all she could see was the perimeter fence thirty yards away .
12 All she could hear was the sound of his footsteps on the fresh snow and the swish and bump of her bags as they scraped the alley walls .
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