Sentence examples for Could have born from inspiring English sources

I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere".

"The irony," she said, "is that of all his wives Anne, a healthy, strong young woman, was the one who probably could have born him lots of children – if only he'd been able to accept her".

At that moment, those children we had planned died, or were never born, or could have been born if things had gone differently.

It is crucial we understand that just as easily as a stranger was born a stranger, they could have been born our brother or sister.

And the acting – well, Mark Gatiss could have been born to play Peter Mandelson, if he hadn't first been born to play Mycroft Holmes.

It was a movement, he says, that could have been born only in that natural incubator.

The rescue centre said they didn't know what had caused it: "He could have been born like that".

Still, we had one hero, George Washington, a failed farmer, who though he came from Virginia could have been born in the Bronx.

"I feel Nigerian," said Umenyiora, who sounds as if he could have been born in Anywhere U.S.A. "But in actuality I'm British".

A teenager being whisked away from a party by her angry father "stares out at the hedges speeding by, wishing she could have been born something else, a little thrush or starling or something that could just fly away".

I've reported from war zones and deprived societies for decades, but they have always been profoundly other, and this felt shockingly accessible — I could have been born here, and lived and died like this.