Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the pins and needles in his legs could perhaps have been from loss of blood . |
| 2 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 3 | His hand could only have been on her for a matter of seconds , if that , but when he released her she felt as though her skin had been scorched |
| 4 | To insist upon the inquest in these circumstances could only have been for the purpose of procuring a rapping over the knuckles in public of that authority and/or a convenient means of obtaining evidence for a subsequent claim against it . |
| 5 | as if to illustrate this point I recently spoke to an angler on the Ribble and judging by the distance he held his hands apart — ’ Like this they were ! ’ — his recent catch of ’ two pounders ’ could easily have been around the 6lb mark ! |
| 6 | It was in fact the visitors who could easily have been in front , but for some brilliant tackling by Jason Miller , who on four occasions , kept out both Terry Patterson and Chris Loud . |
| 7 | She sighed , and wondered if all she had done to help the young couple could possibly have been worth it . |
| 8 | It is not stated by the originator as to the exact site of the primary tumour from which MKN45 and MKN45G were derived but because of the gastrin secretory nature of MKN45G it could possibly have been in the antrum . |
| 9 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 10 | This was already clear by 1926 , and could even have been in 1922 , if only the central authorities had kept a closer watch on the pulse of rural life . |
| 11 | Had he been caught or had he panicked he could well have been in very serious trouble : the charming young tearaway could have become a court case . |
| 12 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 13 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 14 | He looked so innocent that Mrs Maylie said , ‘ This child could never have been in a gang of robbers ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But she could never have been like me with an audience . ’ |