Example sentences of "[modal v] perhaps only [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll perhaps only say if you put out a thousand pounds , you 'll possibly get what three hundred pounds back or something like that ? |
| 2 | but he person who was shop steward for the finishing department more or less assumed responsibility for the other shop stewards because the other shop stewards would perhaps only have fifteen or twenty , you know members er under them . |
| 3 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 4 | Brando is like a creature from a different world and time , a lumbering dinosaur who can perhaps only survive in post-modern MTV Hollywood as a kind of comic carnival turn . |
| 5 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |