Example sentences of "[verb] [that] perhaps [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while British filmmakers began to believe in the ‘ decline of Hollywood ’ as their guarantee that the increased popularity of their pictures would be permanent , they were n't disposed to tap the Americans on the shoulder and suggest that perhaps they should start thinking about film schools , new talents programmes , script competitions or anything of that sort . |
| 2 | I know absolutely nothing about P Way but then as Norman was speaking , I realized that perhaps I could put a few ticks in . |
| 3 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 4 | Tim had acquired an exceptional pair of early-19th-century patchwork quilts and casually commented that perhaps they should reprint some of the designs . |
| 5 | But I did feel that perhaps they could have bent the rules a little . |
| 6 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 7 | He reasoned that perhaps he would have to put fresh sensation between these echoes and their origins ; fuck them out ; sweat himself clean . |
| 8 | The books were at the auditors and I did n't want to hold up the minutes and , as you 'd all mostly seen them anyway , I felt that perhaps I could let them go . |
| 9 | Erm also as far as the husband 's back trouble was concerned , I f I felt that perhaps you should 've got a bit more information about the fact that he was going for tests next week at the hospital . |
| 10 | None of them talked much , but Ruth tentatively suggested as a parting thought that perhaps they should think about doing some more systematic theoretical study . |
| 11 | Rachel wanted to move to London , and thought that perhaps they could share a house . |
| 12 | He could glamour it all up by putting in a phoney dashboard and to that end he thought that perhaps he could borrow ( borrow is a word we use a lot in the Air Force ) some instruments from an old aeroplane down on the aerodrome — I believe it was a Boulton Paul Sidestrand . |
| 13 | Girls somehow grow up thinking that perhaps they can do both , but they think that can have , you know , five or ten years off work and then go back to it . |
| 14 | He was thinking that perhaps he ought to warn Rain where the MacQuillan case was leading . |
| 15 | He left her in her room , thinking that perhaps he 'd climb up to the rocks on the crest of the headland and watch the sunlight on the lake until the mountain shadows took it away . |
| 16 | I was thinking that perhaps you could arrange for me to be one of the team . |
| 17 | J was when she got all jittery , thinking that perhaps she should have washed the apple before eating because who knows what toxic chemicals it might have been sprayed with ? |
| 18 | I suggested that perhaps I could help him fill in gaps in his memory . |