Example sentences of "[that] maybe [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 2 | But the weather took a turn for the worse and Lawford suggested that maybe they ought to wait until morning . |
| 3 | Raphaelo Florienborque , leader of the Phantasms , joked that maybe they should take that phrase literally . |
| 4 | The researcher flitted around with a note of regret in his voice that maybe they should have gone to Rentokil 's greenhouses as was originally offered and planned . |
| 5 | do you think that maybe they could benefit from this idea that you 've been talking about today ? |
| 6 | Please pray that as the need for ‘ counselling ’ is recognised ( and the need is very great ) that maybe they can give me some time from working duties to provide a ‘ service ’ in this area . |
| 7 | If you said that maybe they 'd get it the next day would n't they ? |
| 8 | okay , anybody got any other reasons why they think that maybe we ought to know what 's going on in other countries , why , why would we be interested in the roots in Kenya , India , why would we be interested in those countries ? |
| 9 | I apologised for being curt with the lecherous one and said that maybe we 'd meet for a drink . |
| 10 | The science fiction idea is that maybe one can take a shortcut through a higher dimension . |
| 11 | Yet as we talked and ate , he looked mostly at Werewolf and then at his daughter and occasionally you could see him thinking that maybe he ought to change his Will . |
| 12 | He hesitated , thinking that maybe he should drop the matter . |
| 13 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |
| 14 | But if that 's the case , he 's obviously so accurate that maybe he should try hitting them close for a change ! |
| 15 | I think that maybe you should have done much more actually , but I I have n't argued because he 's so . |
| 16 | So I thought that maybe you could eat with us after all . ’ |
| 17 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 18 | Erm I do n't know what this is serious point actually if if you fancy yourself as one of these so called mums and I think it is a little patronizing the er title of a mums ' army of teachers , if you think that maybe you could do that and you 'd be interested in doing that and you think it 's quite a good idea I 'd be interested in hearing from you , all right ? |
| 19 | No one then ever suggested that maybe I might try a pattern with two rows alike and forget the ‘ staggering ’ . |
| 20 | And the fact that your wife is erm there was something that could 've possibly been done for your wife and that is something that maybe I would 've mentioned at the end , do you think this would of be any benefit to the wife only as maybe an ending statement or something |
| 21 | When I went in for medicine I had the feeling that maybe I would take out an appendix on the kitchen table … now this has been a big disappointment of my life as a GP that whatever I can do , there 's someone else who can do much , much better . |
| 22 | I think no mine are too thin , or maybe their not , and , and this , and seeing this in magazines , seeing it on television it make 's me think that maybe I could have that |
| 23 | And I thought then that maybe I should ask him how he was . |
| 24 | No , but when she sent this you 'd think that maybe she would put in it |