Example sentences of "[pron] could have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 2 | I could have been a cricketer — I had two uncles who captained the English counties years ago — but a photographer , no . |
| 3 | From behind I could have been a man with my hood up . |
| 4 | She said last night , ‘ I played steady golf and , although I could have been a bit sharper , I am not disappointed with my start . |
| 5 | Or I could have been a bit less awkward , and said , you just give me the positive one . |
| 6 | I could have been a set-up . |
| 7 | I could have been a model , I reckon , though at twenty five I suppose I 'm too old now . |
| 8 | Well you should have invited me round and I could have been the guy . |
| 9 | Murray 's new all-comers ' mark was one of six set on Saturday — along with Olympic champion Maksim Tarasov 's 5.81m pole vault , Jon Edwards 's 17.16m triple jump and Michael Johnson 's incredible 400m in 45.14 , which could have been a world record if he had not eased up . |
| 10 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 11 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 12 | She could have been a dancer if she 'd taken lessons . |
| 13 | She could have been a kitchen maid for all we know and your children … |
| 14 | She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country . |
| 15 | She could have been a stranger . |
| 16 | She swivelled round on her heel , and struck a pose with her left hip thrown sideways , and her cigarette hand extended in a rather classical way She could have been a model , people always said so . |
| 17 | Mr Burge 's claims to the title ( to get the votes his pupils had to write down his name separately all 18,000 times ) were strongly backed by his headmaster , David Youldon who could have been a campaign manager . |
| 18 | He speaks of himself as a man who could have been a God . |
| 19 | Okay you covered all that okay yeah erm I think the objection bit you could 've been a bit better on that one erm cos that was quite a sort of bad one , well you 're not too sure about sort of giving his name or his telephone number out |
| 20 | ‘ You could have been an artist . ’ |
| 21 | But , he added , ‘ we could have been a factor in the , failure of Super-SARA . |
| 22 | We could have been a bit cleverer . ’ |
| 23 | We could have been a lot more down the road to genuinely modernizing the Labour Party , making it a bit more in tune with our own members and those many thousands who should be members of the Labour Party . |
| 24 | The grounds of relief were , inter alia , that there was a breach of natural justice and irrationality as there was no evidence on which there could have been a finding that the applicant had committed a breach of professional misconduct . |
| 25 | While George Boon rejected the suggestion that the very small coins were votive objects and may thus be found in some quantity on temple sites , he sensibly adds that there could have been a tendency for poor quality coins ‘ to gravitate to these shrines as easily as to the offertory of a country church ’ . |
| 26 | Had the conservatives prevailed completely , there could have been a reconciliation with Rome after the death of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in 1536 , when the occasion of the dispute was thus ended . |
| 27 | Mr Constable added : ‘ There could have been a commuter rebellion last week . |
| 28 | ‘ There could have been a fire , ’ said Lily . |
| 29 | There were 16 other games going on that day and there could have been a score of bad incidents missed by the referee . |
| 30 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |