Example sentences of "could have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 2 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |