Example sentences of "[pron] could be [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But I could be both Verlaine and Rimbaud . |
2 | I could be quite sort of interesting . |
3 | She saw it was herself , there on the canvas ; in fact it was so much herself that she could not believe that she could be both people , one here on the studio floor and one sitting there clasping her knees , her eyes lost in faraway visions , her white feet on wet black rocks against which little waves were breaking in plumes of spray . |
4 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
5 | So it , it could be just debts . |
6 | I wish it could be always summer and autumn , with you always loving me ! ’ |
7 | This could merely be clustering , it could be merely chance . |
8 | He retained his northern direct honesty of judgement , was absolutely without pretence and intolerant of humbug ; he could be devastatingly acid in deprecating affectation in others , yet was , in so many ways , unfailingly and practically kind . |