Example sentences of "perhaps [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am writing this letter in a personal capacity , but as Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Membership & Recruitment Committee , perhaps I am well placed to comment on the debate on entry requirements . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , perhaps I am all the things you say , ’ Azmaveth replied , ‘ but you wo n't denounce me . |
| 3 | Perhaps I am so preconditioned by tables that I could not reflect quickly enough that there are other ways of getting the answer . |
| 4 | Or perhaps I am too old . |
| 5 | But perhaps I 'm just dreaming . |
| 6 | Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps I 'm just tired . |
| 8 | Perhaps I 'm just getting paranoid . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm just unused to getting them from you , ’ she countered . |
| 10 | Perhaps I 'm too old , too tired and too tetchy for this ‘ daily ’ decathlon . |
| 11 | Perhaps I 'm too hard on her , but the whole thing has me on edge . |
| 12 | Perhaps I 'm too hold , old . |
| 13 | Perhaps I 'm still punishing him by penning this recollection , or am I perhaps finally laying the ghost ? |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm still looking for it . ’ |
| 15 | But then , when I le left you and went to work I 'd eat those pasties and crisps and then perhaps I 'm still hungry , sometimes I 'd go and have a Chinese all at the wrong time , that 's what all that is in n it ? |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm quite wrong and Pickles is serious . |
| 17 | Perhaps I was just being a ridiculous prig , behaving quite differently from anyone else who had ever been taken prisoner . |
| 18 | It could be that he felt I represented authority or the establishment in some way , or perhaps I was just convenient |
| 19 | Perhaps I was half asleep . |
| 20 | But perhaps I was as oblivious at school as I was at home to the sneers or the impatience of others . |
| 21 | Some of my men were frightened , and perhaps I was too . |
| 22 | ‘ Or perhaps I was too ambitious . |
| 23 | Perhaps I was too hasty in rejecting it . ’ |
| 24 | Did you think perhaps I was too old to have a grandmother still alive ? ’ |
| 25 | If he 's her lawyer , perhaps she 's already given him the photograph . |
| 26 | She thought , she 's possessive about Pat , perhaps she 's even in love with him ! |
| 27 | Perhaps she 's even giving to somebody else the love and devotion she 's never given to me . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps she was just bad . |
| 29 | Perhaps she was just feeling generally unhappy , and you put two and two together and made five . |
| 30 | But perhaps she was just short of sleep : there were other ways of looking at it . |