Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 2 | She might have been any age between thirty and sixty and Wexford set the lower limit so low only because of her young children . |
| 3 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 4 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 5 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 6 | She would have been rude back , but she was drinking my booze . |