Example sentences of "[pron] could have been any " in BNC.

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1 I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland .
2 She could have been any girl in any photograph .
3 She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face .
4 Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty .
5 In a flash a sniper , who could have been any gun happy soul anywhere , had killed .
6 The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries .
7 Apart from that it could have been any accident on an urban road .
8 It could have been any letter .
9 It could have been any one of those residents , even the frailest woman .
10 Given the richness of interconnections between the boxes , it could have been any one of them that was dubbed the conscious one , so we would need something more by way of justification for choosing any particular one .
11 It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB .
12 It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle .
13 It could have been any Yorkshire farmhouse kitchen , except that there was no sign of cooking , and no farmer sitting at the table .
14 So your on your only answer is , well it could have been any one of these five .
15 but it could have been any hour of the day
16 It could have been any of a whole range of other things .
17 He could have been any one of the brothers .
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