Example sentences of "could [verb] [been] [verb] [det] " 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 | Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " . |
3 | He teaches you how to write wonderful , metaphysical narratives , but they could have been written any time this century . |
4 | Almost all the work was done by manual labour alone and the order which Wade sent to Edinburgh Castle in 1726 for ‘ 94 shovells , 82 pickaxes , 42 spades , 3 iron crows ’ is typical and could have been repeated many times over . |
5 | Could have been done this morning . |
6 | Horne could have been murdered any time between dusk and dawn . |
7 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
8 | He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night . |
9 | Indeed , the documents themselves could have been transcribed many times through the ages . |