Example sentences of "she could have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally , I think she could 've been a little cleverer , lyrically . |
| 2 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 3 | She could have been at home , warm and snug . |
| 4 | She could have been at Lisa 's house , laughing . |
| 5 | She could have been alone with in dark shadow in her breast , nourishing it quietly and secretly . |
| 6 | If Jamie had n't let the dog off the lead she could have been there much longer . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We own the building and all the partners have keys , so unless someone else was here she could have been in and out without anyone noticing . ’ |
| 9 | She could have been a top model . |
| 10 | For a while , she thought she could have been at any moderately boring Christmas party . |
| 11 | But she could have been slipped something somewhere , through a pinprick . |
| 12 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 13 | She was not prosecuted ( though clearly she could have been ) under section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 , possibly because the Government had just had its nose bloodied by a jury in the Clive Ponting trial , a case we deal with in Chapter 5 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 16 | She shone so brightly she could have been freshly painted ; you were afraid that if you touched her you 'd smudge something . |
| 17 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 18 | If I faintly wish Isabella had had some intellectual interests — and she could have been very funny about them — am I perhaps wrong ? |
| 19 | If she could have been part of a warm , loving family , it was what she would have liked most of all . |
| 20 | She could have been a stranger . |
| 21 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 22 | She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country . |
| 23 | She could have been hardly eleven then . |
| 24 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 25 | That kind of education will take her back likely to what she was ; I mean , what she could have been . |
| 26 | She could have been assigned to any one of them . |
| 27 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 28 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 29 | She could have been his mother , for he was the son of John Symmys of that parish , or even his relict , for he himself must have been dead by 1525 , when the Ridlington lease was granted to the duke of Richmond . |
| 30 | ‘ Neither of us imagined she could have been so wonderful . ’ |