Example sentences of "he [modal v] perhaps have " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the car 's lights disappeared round the corner , it occurred to Charles that he should perhaps have asked the man to wait . |
| 2 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 3 | To a person more interested in the advance of science he might perhaps have tried to explain what he was after , but with Lucy he perceived that this would not be a success . |
| 4 | He could perhaps have submitted himself to some army medical board , but whether they would have enthused over the application of a 48-year-old epileptic syphilitic with no military experience except that acquired while shooting wild-life in the desert |
| 5 | He could perhaps have changed something . ’ |
| 6 | he would perhaps have a " certain historical place in the literary history of our period " , and Herbert Read recalled how he might on occasions say , " Valery , Yeats and I … " . |
| 7 | You are suggesting , tactfully , that he did n't like what he saw ( correct ) , and that if he had seen more , he would perhaps have come round to your way of thinking in these matters ( incorrect ) . |
| 8 | Doing this , ‘ he will perhaps have learned more than he can tell . ’ |