Example sentences of "could [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's erm , on , on Monday , on Monday morning they could 've been working |
| 2 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 3 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 4 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 5 | she 's it could 've been saying |
| 6 | Yet only 9 per cent of women who could benefit are taking up the option . |
| 7 | But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow , near-landlocked waters . |
| 8 | I was isn a relationship which I could feel was going wrong — in the same way that all my previous relationships had gone wrong . |
| 9 | He ate dinner and all she could remember was living with him in London ; when they rented a flat , he would n't let her cook . |
| 10 | The earliest thing she could remember was sitting on a pink-and-grey rug in the kitchen ; it was a memory that often drifted into her mind , vague and unsummoned , just before she fell asleep . |
| 11 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 12 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him , four hours after drinking with him . ’ |
| 13 | Then it abruptly disappeared , and all he could see were entrancing coloured patterns chasing each other about the glowing darkness like tropical fish . |
| 14 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 15 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 16 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 17 | A spokesman said they could have been trying to race the MG . |
| 18 | She could have been trying to picture the place where Zeno and she might meet ; some barren scrap of land inside her head . |
| 19 | In fact , the high quality of iron ore available to the Romans in Britain combined with the use of charcoal fuel in the smelting process , meant that they could have been producing steel which would have given a much harder and sharper edge to the blade than normal iron . |
| 20 | You see , it hurt me to think that you hated me , that you could have been conspiring behind my back with a man like William , but then I began to think a little straighter . |
| 21 | As you retire to your beds at dusk on the eve of Hallowe'en , perhaps you might ponder upon the exciting evening you could have been enjoying and resolve to end this ridiculous feud at last . ’ |
| 22 | Speaking at the service in St Nicholas 's Church , Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , he said Sgt Forth , 34 , was killed on a night when he could have been enjoying the festivities at a friend 's wedding . |
| 23 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 24 | Some of his companions had reported smoke , but Dulé had thought little of it — Sycorax could have been stewing the indigo with special enthusiasm . |
| 25 | ‘ Someone could have been hiding here when we came into the church earlier today . |
| 26 | Perot was furious ; instead of chasing chimeras , his money could have been earning interest in the bank . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 28 | Nobody with such a disease could have been training so hard and felt so well . |
| 29 | Ralph Berger and Ian Oswald established that the REM sleep periods characterized by few and small eye movements were accompanied by experiences of what they called " passive " dreaming , with few events reported that the subject could have been scanning . |
| 30 | Their fitness might have protected them , but the stress of competitive sport could have been damaging . |