Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could do were both starving , I 've finished mine . |
| 2 | All I could feel were five soft muzzles have a friendly sniff . |
| 3 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 4 | Of course I could have been present |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's chilling and frightening to realise I could have been one of his victims . ’ |
| 7 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 8 | I could have been worse . |
| 9 | I could have been free if I were n't a coward . |
| 10 | I could have been allergic or something . ’ |
| 11 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
| 12 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 13 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 14 | I could have been dead , for all you knew or cared . |
| 15 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 16 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 17 | ‘ I have thought about whether I could have been another of his victims . |
| 18 | ‘ I wanted to play something really quiet because my hearing at that point was so hyper that everything I could hear was loud . |
| 19 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 20 | Not much late I asked Dr Ethelwynn Trewavas her opinion , and she assured me two species were involved , and kindly showed me photos of the teeth of both species , which even I could see were different . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 22 | Some of the things I could see were some sheep droppings , a stone or two , my rucksack and an aluminium ring pull from someone 's can of juice . |
| 23 | I took the only option that I could see was open to me , and I ran away into the desert . |
| 24 | ‘ All I could see was this big black torpedo trying to bite my leg off ’ |
| 25 | There was a big rubber mark on Alain 's fairing , and all I could see was this big black torpedo trying to bite my leg off . ’ |
| 26 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 27 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 28 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 29 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 30 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |