Example sentences of "[pron] could be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't mind being a bride , if I could be one without having a husband . |
| 2 | If I wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer , I could be one tomorrow . |
| 3 | I wish I could be what you want , but I ca n't . |
| 4 | I could be what number it is . |
| 5 | After a little nudge from me she remembered Lilian Parsons , seemed to think that I could be her surviving twin . |
| 6 | If I could be nothing but a witness and tolerant judge of others , this ethical nihilism would be a fully rational mode of life . |
| 7 | The bathroom and the lavatory were the only places where I could be myself and on my Own . |
| 8 | We could do it again , I could be someone else with you there , it would be like seeing inside my head , a way out of the dark . |
| 9 | ‘ I could be your Daddy , ’ he says , ‘ if I was white . ’ |
| 10 | I could be your father . |
| 11 | If I could be your husband . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Just another thing which could be something or nothing . |
| 13 | No , not necessarily , no , an active task is something that takes your department forward , actively improves the way your department runs , which could be something like . |
| 14 | It seems to me that the Cabinet has an obsessively self-protective herd instinct which could be its undoing . |
| 15 | We are happy to find that there is to be no repetition of the Buckingham House measures — beginning a vast edifice without money and without a definite plan , the upshot of which could be nothing but bungling . |
| 16 | Fuji , world renowned for quality film and processing , are leaders in the field of professional photography and as well as running photography schools where professionals can learn to improve their technical and creative skills , every year host the Fuji Wedding and Portrait Awards , offering valuable prizes to both the photographer and their subject , which could be you and your future husband . |
| 17 | of victim , a lot which could be anyone 's . |
| 18 | There have also been one or two apparently motiveless murders in Vienna these last few weeks which could be his work , though it 's less certain . ’ |
| 19 | You will also have the chance to provide informal activities which could be anything from putting on a record or cassette for some listening or dancing , to reading aloud , or getting someone fixed up with their portable stereo or a good romance to read . |
| 20 | When you are with a group of people and someone decides to be kind and ‘ bring you in ’ , out of the blue you will be told ‘ We are talking about … ’ which could be anything ranging from the Prime Minister 's latest speech or last night 's TV programme to the odd behaviour of the woman next door . |
| 21 | She could not wait to rush up to her room to read the latest book her friend had lent her — which could be anything from The Stones of Venice to The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 22 | ‘ She is so like you that she could be your twin ! ’ ’ |
| 23 | Alice , she could be your daughter , your girlfriend , your wife . |
| 24 | Well she could be my age and be a student . |
| 25 | But with student friends like Chana Orloff and Germaine Labaye , known as ‘ Red Bean ’ , Jeanne 's friend from the Colarossi , she could be herself , intelligent , interested in fashion , with a style of her own . |
| 26 | She could be herself , by herself . |
| 27 | Sleeves flowing gold , flame , green and indigo under the shifting rainbow of lights , she could be none other than his all-time favourite partner , the exquisite Cyd Charisse . |
| 28 | She could be anything between twenty-eight and forty-eight . |
| 29 | He was a guy who could be something for a brief period of time and then he vanished like the spirit he was impersonating . |
| 30 | She wanted now , at any price , to be able to sit in the rooms of young women who could be her friends and not feel that she was travelling in territory stranger than the night caves that were Fenna 's home . |