Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] [be] [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | You could n't be all that you are without despising me . |
2 | It could just be that and of course it would be very naive to assume that evolution had adapted us always to be happy with everything . |
3 | And in whatever enterprise he was engaged there , in that far-off region she had never seen , and never would see , where his heart was , she knew in her own heart that it could not be less than glorious . |
4 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
5 | Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured . |
6 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |