Example sentences of "[pers pn] could have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by . |
| 2 | Of course I could have been present |
| 3 | I could have had erm brown eyes instead of blue , I could have been taller or shorter , I could have been lots of different erm bodily arrangements erm and still be me , just be the same er person . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's chilling and frightening to realise I could have been one of his victims . ’ |
| 5 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 6 | I could have been worse . |
| 7 | I could have been free if I were n't a coward . |
| 8 | I could have been allergic or something . ’ |
| 9 | I could have been old JC himself , I tell you , riding into Jerusalem on his donkey , ready to spread the Good News . |
| 10 | I could have been any little old lady waiting for a relative to arrive from Holland . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been much better if I could have been happy working at the forge . |
| 12 | I could have been dead , for all you knew or cared . |
| 13 | I was n't saving up to get married , I was n't very interested in jewellery , and clothes , which I could have been interested in , came under the category of things to look at in shop windows but not to buy , because of the very limited amount of clothing coupons one was allowed to have . |
| 14 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 15 | ‘ I have thought about whether I could have been another of his victims . |
| 16 | None of them could have been happy at that time . |
| 17 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 18 | That left at least forty-eight hours from Angela Morgan 's disappearance when , as far as the forensic evidence went , she could have been alive . |
| 19 | If only she could have been taller . |
| 20 | She could have been any girl in any photograph . |
| 21 | She could have been any age , for though her face was weathered by the sun , no wrinkles marred her face . |
| 22 | Melanie wondered how old she was but there was no way of telling ; she could have been any age between twenty-five and forty . |
| 23 | She could have been alone with in dark shadow in her breast , nourishing it quietly and secretly . |
| 24 | Standing in his arms , in the warm fairy-lit darkness of the woods , with music and laughter and festa revelry all around them , she could have been alone in the world , Roman the only other human being . |
| 25 | Of all the people she could have been stuck with at a time like this ! |
| 26 | You could have been involved in it up to your neck . ’ |
| 27 | And I do n't believe for one moment that you could have been ignorant of the fact that she was wealthy . |
| 28 | Just as , er just as well you did n't go out because erm you could have been half way out there in the plane or whate when erm |
| 29 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 30 | I mean we could have been worse , could have forgotten completely . |