Example sentences of "could [verb] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 2 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 3 | Here was somewhere in a meditative limbo between earthly chaos and spiritual ecstasy ; we could have been on the crystal lake of the Apocalypse , half-way to paradise … |
| 4 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 5 | But we do have to ask if the saboteur could have been on the train , just in case any of you noticed anything wrong . ’ |
| 6 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 7 | Mrs Vickerman , a Binns Store manageress , said she was upset and concerned that her two-week-old baby could have been on the seat . |
| 8 | But it could have been on my knees . |
| 9 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 10 | Could have been on that . |
| 11 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |