Example sentences of "that perhaps it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great all seem to have had this cross to bear , and that is no comfort — I think more is to be found in the wicked suspicion that perhaps it 's a thing those Snows have n't experienced . |
| 2 | … She asked why Blanche did not like my book and I kindly suggested that perhaps it was the woman being scarred from a motor accident which she did n't like ( it was the book itself ) . |
| 3 | Mildred closed her eyes again , hoping that perhaps it was only a nightmare , but when she sneaked another look , the apparition was still there , and now it began patting gently at Mildred with its gigantic paws . |
| 4 | Then , with that stoical and selfless streak in her character , she reflected that perhaps it was just as well he was not . |
| 5 | The day before we were due to leave , he came up to our room after lunch and began by saying that perhaps it was n't so sensible for Flora to continue her journey by herself , travelling by local buses across the Atlas , and not only not sensible but not altogether safe , even though she was tough and independent and used to looking after herself . |
| 6 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 7 | After she died , the renegade thought came into his mind that perhaps it was a surfeit of prayer in those chill damp churches that had killed her . |
| 8 | She hoped then that perhaps it was all to end here — that the act would be something separate . |
| 9 | And then that perhaps it was a sort of reminder . |
| 10 | Later he reflected that perhaps it was not so surprising because of the conflict Maureen had described between Barron and her father and between Barron and herself . |
| 11 | She was just thinking dizzily that perhaps it was what she really should do , in order to get Dr Russell out of her system , when Sharon Blackett 's fat file was dumped unceremoniously on top of the rest of the paperwork and she looked up to see the endocrinologist 's painfully disturbing form looming over her . |
| 12 | ’ We made the comment that perhaps it was too tidy . ’ |
| 13 | erm I found it self-indulgent , I suppose in the sense that perhaps it was too long and the film maker , I think , was reluctant to erm chop some of that material , but I think the great advantage that the film had was that it reached a very wide audience by being shown on BBC South . |