Example sentences of "he could [vb infin] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 2 | ‘ There remains a suspicion he could have been involved in some way , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He could have been involved in an accident . |
| 4 | She would not , of course , have been surprised to hear her father making one of his many nocturnal pilgrimages , but he would have taken his stick , banged doors , bumped against furniture , turned on lights , even sung an old pop song from the sixties if he could have been sure of waking the children . |
| 5 | Hugh was visited by a momentary vision of Brother Cadfael 's face , if he could have been present to appreciate the irony . |
| 6 | He could have been right at that , when one considers the trips that hippies take after eating some types of mushroom . |
| 7 | He could have denied it , he could have been positive , but all he did was tell me he loved me , that it did n't matter . |
| 8 | Sanders is a muddled old chap , but I do n't think he could have been wrong about anything as fundamental as that . |
| 9 | But for his guardians and his lack of friends , he could have been happy here , he thought as he went round the front of the car to open the door for Madeleine . |
| 10 | He finally finds contentment in living a basic life and repaying Joe what he owes him and he soon realises that he could have been happy staying with Joe in the forge . |
| 11 | Police said it 's possible he could have been responsible for two sex attacks in Berkshire … one in Maidenhead and one in Slough . |
| 12 | He could have been scared rigid for all I know . ’ |
| 13 | He could have been dead . |
| 14 | Well he could have been dead by then . |
| 15 | But Wiener 's comments on the corruption he observed in megabuck science are so scathing that he could have been open to a libel suit had he been too specific . |
| 16 | All he could see was tough grey jelly plastered across his visor . |
| 17 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |