Example sentences of "she could have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | She could have been assigned to any one of them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 5 | Not only did she not help ; in the time when she could have been helping she did things like lining the kitchen cupboards with flowery paper , polishing the brass door knocker , ironing tea-towels and shampooing the TV room carpet . |
| 6 | She could have been run over . |
| 7 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 10 | She claims she could have been treated soon after birth , but has suffered a lifetime of pain and disability . |
| 11 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 12 | She could have been killed , only someone disturbed him . ’ |
| 13 | She could have been killed not long afterwards . |
| 14 | She could have been trying to picture the place where Zeno and she might meet ; some barren scrap of land inside her head . |
| 15 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 16 | For all we know she could have been made away with . ’ |
| 17 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 18 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 19 | She was the author of a brief autobiographical account describing the death in 1674 of her father , whom she was accused of having poisoned with the help of John Bunyan [ q.v. ] , a crime for which , had she been convicted , she could have been burned . |
| 20 | On the other hand , she could have been going to see Sophia . |
| 21 | Now she was not orientated at all and for all she knew she could have been going round in circles . |
| 22 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 23 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 24 | I even wonder if she could have been planted on me . |
| 25 | But she could have been slipped something somewhere , through a pinprick . |
| 26 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 27 | Or she could have been raped . |
| 28 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 29 | A BRIDE-TO-BE says she could have been stranded after a wedding car company disappeared . |
| 30 | Now , she could have been lying . |