Example sentences of "i could [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The omission is meaningless : I could well have been delighted , although I ca n't remember whether I had actually begun to think consciously about weight in terms of stones and pounds at this time . |
| 2 | I could easily have been overawed , I 've been thoroughly on edge all week . |
| 3 | I could n't have been more wrong ; people are very respectful there . |
| 4 | ‘ But I could n't have been more wrong . |
| 5 | I could n't have been more fortunate in working with two more intelligent and delightful men . |
| 6 | I could n't have been more grateful to our Zanskari friends that day for guiding us safely out of a rock and ice-water trap . |
| 7 | I could n't have been happier : there was nothing else I could wish for . |
| 8 | God , I could n't have been more wrong . ’ |
| 9 | At fifteen years old I started my drama course and I could n't have been happier . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely I could n't have been so rough ? |
| 11 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 12 | ‘ Sorry I could n't have been more help . ’ |
| 13 | In this regard I could n't have been more fortunate . |
| 14 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 15 | And I could n't have been , I could n't get out to help him I was stuck between the first and second floor ! |
| 16 | ‘ Oh no , ma'am , I could not have been plainer as to everything . ’ |
| 17 | I could not have been more bemused if characters from books had come up and started talking to me . |
| 18 | ‘ Then Orient came in for me and I could not have been happier with the way things worked out . ’ |
| 19 | Save for this fluke I could not have been in the position in which I now found myself . |
| 20 | I could not have been happier . |
| 21 | Our respective manners proved so widely different , that it would have been quite presumptuous in me to do anything but separate from an undertaking upon which I could only have been a clog . ’ |
| 22 | Without the work they did , I could never have been Prime Minister , others could never have been cabinet ministers , nor would we have as many women members of parliament as we have today . |
| 23 | Three years ago , Slater said , ‘ I predicted that there would be no more major RISC announcements , and then came Alpha — I could still have been right . ’ |
| 24 | The water was close , I could almost have been lying in it . |