Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 2 | But — ’ she said , her voice suddenly bitter , ‘ I 'm not in a position to talk , since all I could do was run — eh ? |
| 3 | ‘ All I could do was shut my eyes and think of John Major . ’ |
| 4 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 5 | Reading this , I could have been forgiven for conjuring up a picture of the Queen Mother settling down comfortably by a television set at Sandringham , perhaps a daughter at her side , a corgi at feet and refreshment to hand , basking in the glow of my birthday tribute to her , and making a mental note to instruct the Private secretary in the morning to send a line of thanks to those concerned . |
| 6 | I could have been killed . ’ |
| 7 | I could have been killed . |
| 8 | I think it 's outrageous as I could have been killed . |
| 9 | ‘ I was in the sitting room and I could have been killed if they had come through my side , ’ she said . |
| 10 | After all , I could have been beaten up because I hinted in the Daily News that there was something improper about the Harley/Supersight deal . ’ |
| 11 | I thought the S.S.O. seemed puzzled , but as the light was dim I could have been mistaken . |
| 12 | There was no mistaking his bulk , but I could have been fooled by Jo if I had n't known her . |
| 13 | If only I had his nerve , think of the greasy eggs and tough bacon I could have been spared ! |
| 14 | Maybe I could have been offered a discount if I brought my wife next time . |
| 15 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 16 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 17 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 18 | The Sharrock family know they 've had a lucky escape ; any one or all of them could have been injured , or even killed , when someone threw a brick at their car from an overhead footbridge . |
| 19 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 20 | But they do occur , and some of them could have been avoided . |
| 21 | It is possible that her attitude towards me could have been coloured , even determined , by her own suffering . |
| 22 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 23 | She swore she could remember being dropped on the floor by the doctor who delivered her . |
| 24 | Several hands had hoisted her up , and she could remember being carried at shoulder height , giggling and swaying — and then ? |
| 25 | She could have been assigned to any one of them . |
| 26 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
| 27 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 28 | She could have been run over . |
| 29 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 30 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |