Example sentences of "she could have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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1 | It was such a shock to feel his animosity directed so unwaveringly towards her ; even though , after last night , she could have been prepared for something , she could only gape down at him . |
2 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
3 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |