Example sentences of "[pron] could be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could be forgiven for thinking so lately , ’ Leonora muttered unwisely , then backed away in a hurry from the blaze in his eyes . |
| 2 | But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere . |
| 3 | I could be taught . |
| 4 | Whatever Richard of Gloucester 's intentions — and God knows I could be mistaken ! — he would not provoke the enmity of the Mowbrays by causing harm to the lady Anne , she told herself . |
| 5 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 6 | I could be mistaken , or even deliberately telling a falsehood , about the thimble . |
| 7 | As in the case of the whereabouts of the thimble , I could be mistaken , or even deliberately telling a falsehood . |
| 8 | I could be buying expensive junk . ’ |
| 9 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |
| 10 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 11 | We 'd arrived and Mr Tuckett had driven off and within minutes I could be seen , from the street , through the open curtains , upstairs in a bedroom . |
| 12 | It was less the fear of hell ( which seemed a long time away ) than the fear of being a non-person which prompted me to ask my parents if I could be baptised . |
| 13 | ‘ I could be tied up until quite late , ’ he told her , ‘ but as soon as I 'm free I 'll come round to your hotel . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I could be imagining it , but … . |
| 15 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 16 | I 've got a very hazy , but I could be confusing it her with one of the other relatives |
| 17 | It was because I was subconsciously sure of them that it never occurred to me that I could be rejected . |
| 18 | I could be bathing the children , watching that Thomas the Tank Engine video for the 100th time … |
| 19 | Texas 's on-board video circuitry is excellent for vanilla VGA and for all my eyes tell me , I could be hacking away at the Hyundai . |
| 20 | I would phone twice a day , and , of course , I would leave you a complete itinerary where I could be reached if you needed me . ’ |
| 21 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 22 | ‘ I could be looking for something more , ’ she said , and again she wished she had kept her mouth closed , but he seemed to bring out the worse in her , and she could n't resist answering his insults in the only way she knew . |
| 23 | It is I 'm looking for five er may be for each of those companies so that 's thirty people I could be looking for . |
| 24 | ‘ The fear that I could be had begun to haunt my days and keep me awake at nights , and , although I knew Simon was the wrong person to take into my confidence , he was familiar and he was there . |
| 25 | The case for Solaris on Intel , however , does not appear a strong one for Stuart at present , ‘ although I could be proven wrong ’ , he said . |
| 26 | I could be prosecuted . ’ |
| 27 | In other ways I suppose I could be said to prosper tolerably well . |
| 28 | Any which are sent to er , which of course would be the only way in which I could be contacted , |
| 29 | And if I get the right role , I could be flying again . ’ |
| 30 | and I do n't feel that I could be taking too much money out without putting a certain amount back into it |