Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I could 've been too cool ! ’ |
| 2 | This last comment was the only one I could feel was definitely true . |
| 3 | I could have been either side that was playing you up . |
| 4 | well I 've given many , many different answers here , I could have been here all day , giving you just between point five and point six , and you 'd have been giving one as the answer every time . |
| 5 | I now ask myself how I could have been so daft . |
| 6 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |
| 7 | ‘ I just wish , I just wish I could have been there , ’ he blurts out . |
| 8 | See six months down the road I could have been there . |
| 9 | I could have been almost anyone I chose that day . |
| 10 | I thought of all the warm beds that I could have been in and I kneaded my fingers that were going numb with cold . |
| 11 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 12 | I could try be more personal |
| 13 | What I could see was not the Land Rover but a rock . |
| 14 | Nobody could have been more opposite to the flamboyant Sukarno , or even the haughty Jinnah or the mercurial Nehru . |
| 15 | Nobody could have been better qualified to construct a consensus , even if it had to be temporary , from the new and angular alternatives that were now being proposed for the future of secondary schooling . |
| 16 | The inquiry represents a genuine need for information which could have been partly fulfilled by traditional means such as telephone books or local guides but which could be investigated more thoroughly by using Prestel . |
| 17 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 18 | This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage . |
| 19 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 20 | These were the conditions of a new consensus ; far-reaching proposals for redistribution and public control over private interests , which could have been dangerously aligned to one political party , became shared by both main parties . |
| 21 | Nothing could have been more galling to the Protestants . |
| 22 | Nothing could have been more appropriate . |
| 23 | On the face of it , of course , nothing could have been more natural . |
| 24 | Nothing could have been more timely . |
| 25 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 26 | Nothing could have been more perfect for someone who had to work , but desperately wanted to enjoy the sunshine and activities of summer . |
| 27 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |
| 28 | Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions . |
| 29 | Nothing could have been better designed to ram home to the Scots that monarchy as they understood it was a thing of the past . |
| 30 | Her notebook was there , the piece of paper Cobalt had given her with Barbara Coleman 's Nice address was there , everything she could recall was there except the keys . |