Example sentences of "could have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they could 've been talking about something personal and we would 've heard everything they said . |
| 2 | Erm the issue is is that potentially you could be goi we could 've been going for four point three extra people and we probably wo n't do that . |
| 3 | They could have been writing under Stalin : ‘ Life in blocks of apartments … means living under the close scrutiny of your neighbours . |
| 4 | He could have been writing about van Gogh . |
| 5 | You see , it hurt me to think that you hated me , that you could have been conspiring behind my back with a man like William , but then I began to think a little straighter . |
| 6 | It could have been leaking for months . |
| 7 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 8 | Barbara Coleman had said Maurin was responsible for keeping her hidden , and therefore the men who attacked Edouard could have been acting for him . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you think they could have been looking for — the people who ransacked her cottage ? ’ |
| 10 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not a pleasant thought that he could have been listening to , and taping , our conversations . ’ |
| 12 | It is a picture of the 1888 regatta , but the yachts could have been sailing in the Bay in the 30s . |
| 13 | She could have been speaking of failing to spot an acquaintance in a crowd . |
| 14 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 15 | A State Department official said : ‘ This could have been happening in other places , too . ’ |
| 16 | He could have been smiling at anyone . |
| 17 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 18 | Had the operator of the giant video screen been allowed to go on merrily replaying the more explosive moments , there could have been rioting on the terraces , where already the stewards had their work cut out . |
| 19 | ‘ From the position of the body I think he could have been sitting on the edge of the bed . |
| 20 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 21 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 22 | It was completely anarchic , they could have been fighting for anything , cheaper teabags for all they cared , half of them . |
| 23 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 24 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 25 | Ellwood could have been talking to a simpleton . |
| 26 | She seemed so angry that she could have been talking about hate , or revenge , or death , rather than love . |
| 27 | He could have been talking about Ken Mentle . |
| 28 | He was speaking about Yugoslavia — but he could have been talking about the appalling scenes in Somalia or other parts of Africa . |
| 29 | Had he lived , we could have been talking about Field Marshal Bradford in World War Two . ’ |
| 30 | He could have been crying for his mummy . |