Example sentences of "perhaps i can [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I can blame it all on the gin ( please , I was drunk , I did n't know what I was doing , it was n't my fault , etc. ) but I doubt it .
2 Perhaps I can confirm what he said by reference to one statistic .
3 In that case , perhaps I can consult you about the other unpleasant incident . ’
4 Perhaps I can forget what 's happened if I go there . ’
5 Perhaps I can give you some of the background to this particular matter .
6 He chuckled , ‘ Perhaps I can make him see the error of his ways . ’
7 As a postscript to my days in Port Said , perhaps I can tell one brief , romantic story .
8 Perhaps I can overcome it in time … but it is too much of … forgive me … of a market , an auction , a commercial venture …
9 Well perhaps I can see you go for them .
10 I still feel as fit as a butcher 's dog ; if I confine the news to my close circle , perhaps I can keep it out of the press .
11 And perhaps I can invite your lovely friend to visit my ship , so that she and I might also become acquainted … ? ’
12 Erm perhaps I can invite my colleague from the office of management and budgets to speak to that one .
13 But perhaps I can help you now .
14 Perhaps I can help you … "
15 " I think perhaps I can help you .
16 Perhaps I can help you . ’
17 Perhaps I can help you , ’ the young woman said , and she stepped forward onto the terrace planking .
18 At length the Head Messenger , a man from East London of some presence but little formal education , stepped forward : ‘ Perhaps I can help you , gentlemen , ’ he said with a deferential cough .
19 Perhaps I can help you .
20 GUIL : Perhaps I can use my influence .
21 ‘ I think perhaps I can persuade you to delay that , min elskede , ’ he returned lazily .
22 Perhaps I can persuade you that the life of a vigneronne has much to recommend it after all . ’
23 Out of the car park … then round the corner and into the High Street , full of fat old housewives and layabouts , past Woolworth 's and into Tesco 's — perhaps I can lose them among the counters .
24 Perhaps I can remember what each individual achieved without looking at any written work .
25 As to the atmosphere evoked by them , perhaps I can add something .
26 Perhaps I can introduce him to you . ’
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