Example sentences of "you could [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I know but you could 've been fetched from Grand Canaries . |
| 4 | So you could have been killed by one of our own guns ? |
| 5 | ‘ You could have been killed . ’ |
| 6 | You could have been killed by your own foolhardiness and so could others in an attempt to find you . ’ |
| 7 | You could have been mistaken . ’ |
| 8 | Dropped in , blindfolded , you could have been forgiven for thinking you were in Surrey were it not for the unmistakable twang of the Ulster accent . |
| 9 | Listening to the debate and the old-fashioned ideas of male supremacy it unearthed , you could have been forgiven for thinking that we were still in the 16th Century . |
| 10 | You could have been forgiven for imagining , that Peter Nicholson had undergone surgery to replace his vocal chords with a megaphone . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 13 | There are a couple of tracks from ‘ The Extremist ’ where it sounds like you could have been using a Les Paul , and that could have been the influence of the new stop tailpiece … |
| 14 | Not long ago you could have been prosecuted for owning gold . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As you retire to your beds at dusk on the eve of Hallowe'en , perhaps you might ponder upon the exciting evening you could have been enjoying and resolve to end this ridiculous feud at last . ’ |
| 17 | You could have been drowned , remember . ’ |
| 18 | You could have been lying out there in the farmyard all night ! ’ |
| 19 | You could have been making for any one of them in a boat . |
| 20 | You could have been driving |
| 21 | So you could have been standing , you with your shield , at this point with Constable with you , either on one side of the bed or at the bottom of the bed or on the other side of the bed , where were you in fact standing ? |
| 22 | You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and |
| 23 | You could have been excused for believing that Maradonna had made a come back . |