Example sentences of "[pron] could be [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's wrong of me , but I wish I could be at Lady Mead , Goddy . |
| 2 | What if you , if you lent us some dosh I suppose I could be with Louise tonight , right , I could go home with a big bunch of flowers cos I 'll have a guilty expression on my face . |
| 3 | I could be in London this evening with Colonel Vaughan having a good piss-up , then probably on leave for a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for your shiftless nephew , Suzie would be back in England by now , my mother would n't be having sleepless nights and I could be in London doing the job for which I 'm paid ! ’ |
| 5 | And when he would not be persuaded that Rain had no more for him , she mentioned Georgie and Joey and wished she could be aboard Perfidia when Berg cornered them , as he surely would . |
| 6 | If she was quick she could be at Holywood before him , to change and have a bath . |
| 7 | Or perhaps she could be like Merlyn Joseph and find herself a rich man who would install her in a yacht . |
| 8 | If she went home and packed a bag , she could be in New York tomorrow . |
| 9 | But she 's disappeared from her refugee camp , and it 's thought she could be in Germany . |
| 10 | Enter Nielson 's new Superstore on the A40 in West London and you could be in MFI or Do-It-All . |
| 11 | They had bought a house in London so that for some time each year they could be in England , and now , with the baby almost due , Felipe had brought Maggie back . |
| 12 | Many saw themselves as being above the grubby world of traditional politics and the professions , but often felt they could be like Richard Branson , the one-time hippy and promoter of alternative music who had joined the system and made a fortune . |
| 13 | Next thing , it could be like Mick and Jerry . |
| 14 | It could be from South Yorkshire . |
| 15 | ‘ It could be in Indiana , ’ says Vernikos . |
| 16 | ‘ It could be in Japan , who knows ? |
| 17 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 18 | He was magnificent , but she must n't let the surge of unexpected excitement running through her blind her to the danger he could be to Dana . |
| 19 | He could be like Alain Delon , playing high-quality villains — interesting , complex people . |
| 20 | He wished he could be like Martin , if only in some small way , because he had the feeling he lacked something . |
| 21 | ‘ He is n't fit now but he could be by Sunday , ’ added Wilkinson . |
| 22 | ‘ He could be from Timbuctoo . |
| 23 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |