Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [be] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My goodness , if I could only be God for a short time-even half a day ! — then I 'd be content to be St Peter for ever after ! " |
| 2 | Then she was in another bedroom which could only be Luke 's , and on the chest by the window lay the passport . |
| 3 | When she could just be Lily Greene , on holiday in Paris . |
| 4 | If she could n't be Peter she was quite prepared , once she 'd mastered the technicalities , to hide behind a reflection . |
| 5 | Some he 'd learnt off the Frenchman — whose name is such a household name it escapes me — Marcel Marceau — and Jack Birkett ( now known as The Great Orlando ) was Harlequin , who could also be Columbine . |
| 6 | The political élite regarded the situation after December 1848 as one which would be finite , destined to end in 1852 with the election of a new President , who could not be Louis-Napoleon since the Constitution precluded a second term . |
| 7 | You could n't be Bambi all the time , not on the borders of the subconscious . |
| 8 | She knew at once it could not be Ruth . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew it could not be Wednesday , it is Faith Lavender who comes on Wednesdays . |
| 10 | It could n't be Emma , could it , with some ghastly news about Cindy Hill slitting her wrists or something ? |
| 11 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 12 | Surely it could n't be Jake ? she thought in startled panic . |
| 13 | It was n't the van arriving for he would have heard the engine , and it could n't be Joe Maitland . |
| 14 | It could hardly be Parma Ham if it came from anywhere else . |
| 15 | It could only be Mischa . |
| 16 | It could only be Maria Luisa asking when Steve would be leaving . |
| 17 | It could only be Kirov . |
| 18 | He could never be Shiona 's , even if he wanted her , and there was nothing to indicate that he really did . |