Example sentences of "perhaps [pron] was for " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't . |
2 | I should do something now , because perhaps it was for want of normal company that Eleanor Thorne lay until her mind turned the corner into madness and final decay , I should go out , I should not allow myself to brood , to carry out my sister 's peculiar whims and defer to the judgments she passes upon me . |
3 | My brother Frankie and sister Liza were a little older than I was , so perhaps it was for this reason that I seemed to end up doing most of the chores . |
4 | Perhaps it was for this reason that I hated them as much as I resented menstruation itself . |
5 | Perhaps it was for the best . |
6 | ‘ Perhaps it was for days . |