Example sentences of "could have [been] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 2 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 3 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 4 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 5 | He looks like a leader , and his name could have been invented for a passport to cross the maze of ethnic boundaries . |
| 6 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |