Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [verb] be [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 2 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 3 | You know one of the things that we could do is to do another directory . |
| 4 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
| 5 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |