Findings:

• Could I Have Been?
• you've been through something that no one should have to go through
• And All That Could Have Been
• It could have been me
• Could have beens, should have beens
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• It could have been a Brilliant Career
• I could have been Canadian
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• The cat (rumination of all that could have been)
• all that time, all those threads, weaving through something that must have been far too confusing to enjoy
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• Could Muhammad have been autistic?
• I could have been one of a two
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• Our minds bend and twist in the wind, our bodies fall apart, and the ghosts we leave behind have only one question: Where Have You Been?
• Front porch, what should have been said
• New zombies have been animated to replace the old
• war trophies for people who have never been to war
• How long have you been in love with her?
• What have you been smoking?
• The Past through Tomorrow: "Future History" Stories
• We are the ones we have been waiting for
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• been through the fire
• If only I'd thought of the right words, I could have held on to your heart
• I have given up other interests to help you. It will be a pleasure to know that my labour has not been in vain.
• You have been in every line I have ever read
• Animals that should not have been domesticated
• Phone books have never been this exciting!
• we just have to past the wisdom to the next civilization
• you have never been safe
• If you or a loved one have been injured or killed
• Boy, have you been having those dreams of yours again?
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• Advice I have been given about girls
• i have been burning for so long
• I have never been sure that you knew quite how much I loved you
• the only comfort we could ever have
• We have been shown the plan only insofar as it concerns ourselves
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• I may or may not have been naked
• How could you ever have enough?
• The house went one way, I ran another, and I could SWEAR I heard the old bat laughing through the walls
• If we could build things out of concepts, I'd have pants made of lust
• My entire life I have been composing my death poem
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• I know I have been dreaming
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• Final moments lost to what should have been
• Laugh when you have been listening well
• Have you ever been illusioned?
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• We Have Always Been The Party Of No
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• I have gone too far. I have been thinking, this is my life. Well, not yet.
• I have always been burning
• They are angry and they have been lied to
• I have not been entirely truthful with you. I did gagoogidy that girl. I gashmoygadied her gaflavity with my googus.
• The smell of kittens that have been careless; the flowers and the beer cans emerging from the snow.
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• You haven't seen it and you don't understand. I have malice. I have cruelty. The little fire that's always been inside me isn't so little anymore.
• you would have been
• Movies that should have been books first
• The last dozen years of populism have been a miserable failure
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• Why have there been no great women artists?
• He's been places they have not.
• What Might Have Been
• Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
• If you pull out into an intersection have the balls to follow through
• I have been showing you what a warrior is not.
• It Must Have Been the Roses
• Grief, killing grief, have not my torments been
• All Girls Should Have Been Born Blonde
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• we're part of something bigger than any one of us. i just feel lucky to have been chosen.
• A time when a gun might have been helpful
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• The path we have been walking
• live vicariously through someone else's attempt at a dark past
• We Have Marched Through This Before
• The bong on the table must have been part of the scenery
• Things that have never been said in the entire history of man
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• The classic Warner Brothers cartoon characters have been replaced by lookalikes
• You have been paroled from participation in the Capitalist Project
• Gap analysis of a telephone call
• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil -- for tonight I have broken my own heart, and my soul is too empty to be afraid.
• I don't have a postmodern condition; I've always been like this
• Names have been changed
• I have just been shot
• AES may have been broken
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• I have been thinking about kissing. A lot.
• Some liberties have been taken with dialogue
• I have been orbiting this planet for thirty-seven years, and am just now starting to experience reentry (document)
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• The way things have always been done
• do you remember the disco rhombus? it must have all been a dream.
• How to check if someone has been through it all
• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
• How to get Apache to tell your visitors when files have moved or been deleted
• All the people looking like they've been run through the life sucking machine. Twice.
• How to really brush your teeth (Yes, you have been doing it wrong)
• I have been enslaved to imaginary Berlins my whole life. (dream) mp3 (recording)
• Have you been a dad today?
• I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
• Wedding invitations for people who have been divorced for years
• Where the water for the flood could have come from
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• Meanwhile, the PILOT, who has been laughing hysterically through the entire sequence, finally loses it. He falls out of his chair and bangs his head against the panel, causing the ship to lose control and crash into a nearby planet
• I have been enslaved to imaginary Berlins my whole life.
• Hello lovely fool where have you been all this time.
• The best phone call I could have made tonight
• A part of us remains wherever we have been.
• our voices, once clarion, have been muted by time and mortgages
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Every morning when I wake up, I feel guilty for all the things I have ever been
• if a cycle can be broken, then it will have been worth it
• You will be a tear-stained diary entry, and it will have been all your fault
• If you could see her through my eyes
• Strangers have been, and continue to be, very kind to me. Thank you.
• Could you have danced with me?
• And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven
• you could have done better with this letter of yours, miss
• They could have saved Kevin
• Astro City #5
• I could have known everything for five dollars
• No man could have the power that is yours and not know it
• I am not gay. I have never been gay.
• How we could still have a President Trump
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me)?
• Penis for a day
• Oh well, I guess I'll have to stain the world with darkness until my bloodlust has been quenched.
• Let's go, keys. I've been drinking vodka and have a lot of big ideas.
• a bad day is when I lie in the bed and think of things that might have been
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• We are the people we have been waiting for.
• I must have been mental to have done something like that, eh?
• For all sad words on tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
• In years past I have not enjoyed Christmas time
• The campaign to have Jedi registered as a religion through the national census
• No human artists have appeared in the Top 40 music chart for the past 5 years
• I appear to have been misinformed
• should have been an artist not a software engineer
• CAUTION: Warning signs have not been installed
• Been
• Who's been messin' with my laser?
• Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
• I've been living my life half asleep
• To One who has been Long in City Pent
• Evolution is only a theory
• Evolution has never been observed
• I've Been Working on the Railroad
• Why there hasn't been much hooliganism in holland during Euro2000
• It's All Been Done Before
• Communication is a good thing, this has been shown
• My one regret as of yet is that my life has been utterly tolerable
• the hottest it has ever been
• It hasn't been so long, but
• Someone's been messing with my anti-paranoia medication!
• The software hath been released
• So now that I've been cursed to die...
• As if we had been sitting next to each other for years
• Life had been an opportunity lost
• Your request for no MSG has been denied
• Never been to Woonsocket, never been to Spain
• Nobody wins the game of who has been hurt more
• jealousy, which has been a sort of game you played with yourself, now grips you relentlessly.
• send me your muzzle, the one that you've been biting on
• Your computer has been cracked
• Discard Packet B. Packet B's been a naughty packet.
• How interesting facts and theories are discredited
• Because I've never been able to make anything beautiful
• We're sorry to inform you: Tony Orlando has been postponed
• It's been a night shift of a life for us all.
• Your success in life has been predetermined from birth
• You've been slowly taking me over for nearly a year, do you know that?
• The End Of The Way It's Always Been
• Help! My sister's been abducted by Christians!
• You've Been Framed
• Never Been Kissed

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