Example sentences of "could have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | Spent ten years writing L'Idiot de la famille when he could have been writing Maoist tracts . |
| 3 | ‘ Nevertheless , it is strange that he should keep such a sum on current account , when he could have been earning two per cent interest . ’ |
| 4 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
| 5 | ‘ For all you knew , I could have been sleeping naked ! ’ |