Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [be] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have had erm brown eyes instead of blue , I could have been taller or shorter , I could have been lots of different erm bodily arrangements erm and still be me , just be the same er person . |
| 2 | I could have been anyone . ’ |
| 3 | Then Roland found a sentence which could have been something or nothing . |
| 4 | She could have been anyone , and that hurt . |
| 5 | Who could vote was something else . |
| 6 | There could 've been something there , someone I 'd met in the past that might open another door . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't think … there could have been something … dark in his past that he was trying to hide , do you ? ’ |
| 8 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 9 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 10 | Several people had tokens in their hands that had come out of what they hoped was a pile of ‘ blancmange ’ — there were plenty of cows in the field beforehand , so it could have been something else . |
| 11 | It could have been something wonderful , but it had to be denied . |
| 12 | The BR spokesman said : It could have been something simple like a gate left open or something sinister like vandalism . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It could have been somebody else , ’ said Owen . |
| 14 | I mean , it could have been lots worse . ’ |
| 15 | It could have been anyone . |
| 16 | It could have been anyone , someone who broke in to steal . |
| 17 | ’ It could have been anyone , ’ I grumbled . |
| 18 | It could have been anyone passing by the serving table , or in the kitchens , or sitting near Sir Thomas — ’ |
| 19 | It could have been anything from a dance routine to a loose maul . |
| 20 | It could have been anything . |
| 21 | The shoreline behind was indistinct ; it could have been anything — like a parable . |
| 22 | ‘ Or he could have been somebody local , a farmer , or … or anything . ’ |
| 23 | He could have been anyone or anything stepping out after a night 's wining and dining . |
| 24 | He could have been anyone but he was in the right place : on his own bed in his own house in Mouncy Street , so it had to be him . |
| 25 | He could have been anything except an army officer in the most sensitive intelligence branch , renowned for undercover operations in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | He could have been anything between twenty and forty years old , thought Joseph . |
| 27 | He could have been anything from twenty-five to thirty , but not , she judged , beyond thirty . |
| 28 | He could have been anybody , one of the hundreds of saints ; but , later , Annabel informed her that he was known among the girls as Mr Billy Brown . |
| 29 | He could have been anybody . |