Example sentences of "[pron] could have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 2 | Of course I could have been present |
| 3 | I could have been free if I were n't a coward . |
| 4 | I could have been allergic or something . ’ |
| 5 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 7 | I could have been dead , for all you knew or cared . |
| 8 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 9 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 10 | She says it was an old building and someone could have been stuck on an upper floor . |
| 11 | Two were from World War Two , but one — surrendered to a Salford police station — was a modern East European device which could have been lethal . |
| 12 | They lay down , and started to begin the endless discovery of the pleasure of each other , and the endless pleasure of each discovery ; while outside there was a faint , remote rumble which could have been shell-fire , or heavy traffic , or even a loose window vibrating in the wind . |
| 13 | As a result of this , a plague struck the Israelites which could have been venereal in origin . |
| 14 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 15 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |
| 16 | She could have been alone with in dark shadow in her breast , nourishing it quietly and secretly . |
| 17 | Standing in his arms , in the warm fairy-lit darkness of the woods , with music and laughter and festa revelry all around them , she could have been alone in the world , Roman the only other human being . |
| 18 | Of all the people she could have been stuck with at a time like this ! |
| 19 | And sitting on the edge of this stream , embraced by the mellow light , was a female creature , who could have been human or fairy or perhaps neither . |
| 20 | That Svend has offended a man who could have been instrumental in his receiving an engineering scholarship to a university in the States , and all he 's likely to receive as thanks is a chaste kiss ? ’ |
| 21 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 22 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 23 | This event had already lost James Trotman , Sarah Kirby and Jasmine Choudbhury through injury — all players who could have been potential title winners . |
| 24 | You could have been involved in it up to your neck . ’ |
| 25 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 26 | It would have been wonderful if we could have been able to afford a gramophone as well . |
| 27 | If only it had left us alone , we could have been happy , we could have gone on being happy . |
| 28 | The systematic study of a non-standard system , however , supports the argument that there could have been orderly variation in EModE involving merger and reversal patterns of /a/ and /Ε/; ( or /α/); in certain consonantal environments , and suggests that the usual account of the history of /a/ ( fronting to [ ae ] and subsequent split into two RP phonemes ) is oversimplified . |
| 29 | The existence of this school suggests that there could have been other halls in the town , but there is no definite evidence . |
| 30 | But there could have been other episodes , involving local girls . |