Example sentences of "his [noun] could [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It seems highly unlikely that an out-of-work , blind architect who believed the site of King Arthur 's Round Table lay in his garden and the Russian Revolution was plotted in his kitchen could be on anyone 's hit list .
2 Hell , his consciousness could be in every drop of rain , or all the bullets in the City .
3 Goram , like the rest of the Ibrox playing staff , understands that his club could be on the verge of something exceptional in their history , and wants to be able to remember everything .
4 THE HOME OFFICE is pressing ahead with the deportation of a Kurdish refugee , in spite of protests from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees that his life could be in danger if he returns to Turkey .
5 He is often very callous to Lennie and is constantly reminding him what his life could be like without Lennie .
6 Each time a worker ploughed a field his status and even his self-respect could be at stake .
7 He was as capricious and manipulative as his mother could be on her bad days and as violent and arbitrary as his father .
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