Example sentences of "could have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 2 | She could have been here with Gran . ’ |
| 3 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 4 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She could have been anywhere between twenty-five and forty , but Jezrael did n't care that her boss was n't wearing plastiface or that her hazel eyes looked like they might brim with mirth . |
| 7 | The boy in the photograph , whose age could have been anywhere between fifteen and twenty , was staring at the camera with startled eyes . |
| 8 | You can imagine the eager anticipation I felt when following the death of our much loved 16 year old dog , I saw an advertisement quoting ‘ Basset Hounds For Sale ’ and the contact , which could have been anywhere in the UK , was only a few miles away . |
| 9 | This was Elm Road , a street in Walton , but it could have been anywhere in Liverpool or Bootle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 13 | Kissing Ludovico in the cramped registry office , in front of strangers , she wished that her mother , Louise , Miss Hatherby and so many others could have been there with them . |
| 14 | Dortmund 's less than a hundred miles , mostly by Autobahn , so you could have been there by midnight . |
| 15 | Nothing could have been less in keeping with the architect 's original intentions . |