Example sentences of "could have [be] [vb pp] [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
2 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
3 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
4 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
5 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |