Example sentences of "perhaps he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he would make her wait until midnight . |
| 2 | Perhaps he would make a successful priest after all — he had the glibness , the assurance that this old man lacked — but not a holy priest . ) |
| 3 | After the rough ingots of metal had solidified , a smith would need to work the metal and hammer it out , or perhaps he would make moulds and pour the molten metal into the shaped mould . |
| 4 | Perhaps he would care to tell the House the status of cancellation clauses , what the penalties would be and what that would mean for a future Government — Conservative or Labour — who decided to cancel . |
| 5 | Before the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) gets on his high horse , perhaps he would care to consider the devastating consequences for his constituents — and any constituents involved in the manufacturing of submarines — as a result of the collapse of submarine orders . |
| 6 | Perhaps he would move into the apartment . |
| 7 | Perhaps he would refuse to come . |
| 8 | Perhaps he would settle for the Magic Flute ? |
| 9 | Perhaps he would do so one day . |
| 10 | Perhaps he would end up like Emperor Francis of Austria — making toffee . |
| 11 | If something went wrong with his contract killer perhaps he would talk it over the way he talked over his builder . |
| 12 | Burkett 's daughter sat on the stallion like a lady in a tapestry and he felt his body move out to join hers ; he ought to marry someone like her — handsome , workaday , submissive , as sensual as a sunny woodland ; perhaps he would ask her . |
| 13 | Daniel is our guest perhaps he would like some more cake . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Be that as it may , perhaps he would like to know that you have completely disrupted our meal . |
| 15 | Perhaps he would like to put his hon. Friend right in regard to the question of bias at the college . |
| 16 | Perhaps he would like |
| 17 | Perhaps he would say it in some lonely place in the hills with someone on the lookout for the searching redcoats . |
| 18 | Perhaps he would say no . |
| 19 | Perhaps he would propose a night painting Perth red if there were any suitable local opportunities . |
| 20 | Perhaps he would let me go there . ’ |
| 21 | He had lots of money ; perhaps he would get drunk … the pubs would be open soon . |
| 22 | One day , when he was feeling a little stronger and thought perhaps he would try to start another letter , Mrs Avery appeared at his door . |
| 23 | Perhaps he would wait until a baby was on the way , for Mrs Darne had not failed to notice that these days extramarital pregnancy , once a horrible disgrace , was often the loudly publicized occasion for a wedding , with the bride , far from ashamed of herself , carrying all proudly before her . |
| 24 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
| 25 | There are passages where Beethoven makes problems that perhaps he would have avoided if he had been able to hear . |
| 26 | Perhaps he would have an explanation . |
| 27 | The Mountie , unperturbed , said he would be proceeding vigorously with the enquiries into both Angelica 's and Ricky 's deaths and perhaps he would have news for everyone in Winnipeg . |
| 28 | He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean . |
| 29 | Perhaps he would have been , if I 'd explained properly . |
| 30 | If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan , perhaps he would have cried even more loudly . |