Example sentences of "could [pers pn] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh God , he thought , how could I have been so stupid , so blind . |
| 2 | How could I have been so heartless ? ’ |
| 3 | Could I have been dreaming ? |
| 4 | How could I have been so irresponsible , putting my foolish ambitions before Richard and my children ? |
| 5 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 6 | ( Oh dear , I had not thought to check the lunar date ; how could I have been so silly ? ) |
| 7 | How could I have been so simple , naive ? |
| 8 | ‘ How could I have been so stupid ? ’ |
| 9 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 10 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 11 | But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ? |
| 12 | How could I have been so blind to have let you go … ? ’ |
| 13 | What could you have been thinking of , you bad man ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Could you have been a contender ? ’ |
| 15 | How could she have been so blind ? |
| 16 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 17 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 18 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 19 | ‘ Could she have been thinking of her real brother ? ’ |
| 20 | Could she have been right when she had thought , almost a week ago , that Roman was about to tell her he had asked Dana to marry him ? |
| 21 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 22 | How could she have been foolish enough to let it happen ? she asked herself inwardly as the lift slowed and stopped , and its wide metal doors sighed open . |
| 23 | How could she have been so gullible ? |
| 24 | Could she have been born abroad , he wondered ? |
| 25 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 26 | How could she have been so stupid ? |
| 27 | How could she have been so pliable in her aunt 's hands ? |
| 28 | But how could she have been exposed to radiation ? ’ |
| 29 | How could she have been on the river ? |
| 30 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |