Example sentences of "could have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 2 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 3 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 4 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 5 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 6 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 7 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 8 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 9 | The boy in the photograph , whose age could have been anywhere between fifteen and twenty , was staring at the camera with startled eyes . |
| 10 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 11 | This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle . |
| 12 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 13 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 14 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 15 | Kissing Ludovico in the cramped registry office , in front of strangers , she wished that her mother , Louise , Miss Hatherby and so many others could have been there with them . |
| 16 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 17 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |
| 18 | And he could have been back in the locker room even quicker had he served out for the match when he led 5–2 in the second set . |
| 19 | Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions . |
| 20 | ‘ Without a replacement , the plant could have been out of action for months , reducing Torness 's productive capacity by half and costing the company a fortune in lost revenue . |