Example sentences of "could have been [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Corporal ’ — her voice was clear and could have been that of a schoolteacher reprimanding — ‘ I have n't much opinion of my legs , but I can assure you you are not the type of man I would allow within parade ground distance of them , let alone pull them . ’ |
| 2 | Cockerill made it two nil after seventy three minutes and could have been more as Shearer missed a penalty ; the final score ; Southampton two , Leeds United nil . |
| 3 | ‘ I have thought about whether I could have been another of his victims . |
| 4 | Mr Salam , 84 , a Sunni Muslim , is the most impressive of Lebanon 's dying breed of elder statesmen , but his words could have been those of a much younger man . |
| 5 | In movements which could have been those of a somnambulist Kersey had retrieved his cigarettes and was placing one between his lips while feeling in his pockets for a lighter . |
| 6 | The above-mentioned aerodromes are only two I have selected , but they could have been any of many in both countries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could have been any of a whole range of other things . |
| 9 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |