Example sentences of "[pron] could have [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of them could have been double-bogeys or worse ! |
| 2 | ‘ I only saw the driver but there could have been others inside the wagon . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There could have been survivors aboard that plane . |
| 4 | They could have been members of the House of Atreus . |
| 5 | From here she could get a glimpse of the houses : ‘ luxury ’ newly-built bungalows , double garages , big picture windows , young trees , landscaped gardens with lawns so smooth and green they could have been carpets . |
| 6 | Jeans , but clean and spruce and I said I have a feeling they could have been police . |
| 7 | Despite the ten-year gap in their ages — Burt is 56 and Tom 46 — they could have been twins . |
| 8 | It could have been hours or minutes later that Isabel found herself staring into a dark pit . |
| 9 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 10 | Slowly he removed the hat and slowly he looked down at it , his vision blurred by alcohol , but for all anyone knew it could have been tears . |
| 11 | It could have been nerves or the effects of the Turkish firewater raki from the night before . |
| 12 | It could have been vicars and tarts , of course , but I reckon he 's one of those transvestites that hang out up there . |