Example sentences of "perhaps when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is vital not to get too high , there is no advantage trying to fly very close to the ground , except perhaps when taking off from a very short field . |
| 2 | It transpired that the left side of the nose splitter has been damaged , perhaps when Baldi had clipped Brundle 's Jaguar in one of his passing attempts , perhaps as a result of ‘ trapped ’ vibration from a high-speed engine misfire . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps when you were out ? |
| 4 | In some houses the fire grate was loose in the wall and looked liable to fall away at any moment … perhaps when full of live coals and with a pan of boiling water . |
| 5 | Hay was made on 91% of the farms in the survey , surprising Perhaps when one considered that at least half the units are in a high rainfall area . |
| 6 | Many desert animals , from tortoises to addax and Arabian oryx , have abandoned the need to drink , except perhaps when pregnant . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps when I get tired of flying , I 'll look underwater ! ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps when pregnant with me , my mother was hit on the head by a ‘ No Vehicular Access ’ sign , and her understandable anxiety transmitted itself to my foetal subconscious . |
| 9 | It said ‘ Danger ’ , but a big piece of the signboard had broken off , so perhaps when it wass whole it said ‘ Dangerfield ’ , not just ‘ Danger ’ . ’ |
| 10 | The greatest effect of social mobility might be expected to be in the middle of the range , perhaps when fathers move from manual to non-manual jobs , for example . |
| 11 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |
| 12 | Perhaps when you were in her age bracket , it made sense . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps when I get a minute to meself we can have a picnic of our own , ’ he suggested . |
| 14 | Suicide and anorexia are by no means mutually exclusive phenomena , but in the typical case of primary anorexia nervosa suicide is simply not a factor , except perhaps when depression has won a particularly resounding victory , and the shame of defeat becomes unbearable . |
| 15 | Perhaps when their children have to go to a run-down , underfunded , understaffed State school they will understand why most of the country is up in arms about the state of the education system . |
| 16 | Perhaps when you 're raised on the Essex-London borders and your dad , brothers and uncles all ( that 's all ) work as chartered accountants in Chingford , it 's easy to develop a sense of life 's absurdity . |
| 17 | Perhaps this link has n't occurred to you , and perhaps when you consider it , it 'll make sense to you . |
| 18 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 19 | It is a recurring phenomenon and perhaps when you miss that particular notch you have to adopt original even eccentric strategies to bring the times and yourself together in the big bang of true fame and real success . |
| 20 | Perhaps when his desk collapsed through sheer weight of mail he finally will realise that we simply want to be left for 60 minutes an hour in our blinkered little world of leather and willow . |
| 21 | Perhaps when he 's with other people he pretends he went to a posher school — Eton or something . |
| 22 | The hardest sell of all was perhaps when the dealer said : " You will do well on this . |
| 23 | On certain days , perhaps when there is a theatre list , or when a number of patients are being admitted from the waiting list , this may be very confusing . |
| 24 | Seeds of such a size remain in its gizzard for a little time while the rind is stripped off them and then later , perhaps when the bird has returned to one of its habitual perches , the nutmeg is regurgitated and falls to the ground . |
| 25 | Well perhaps when each new first-aider qualifies they get like an induction pack or something . |
| 26 | The funeral 's on Wednesday ; perhaps when that 's over , he 'll begin to pull himself together . ’ |
| 27 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps when I was younger , I should have — ’ She broke off , clamping down hard on the thought . |
| 29 | Erm perhaps when we today , about erm clothing that you managed to get together |
| 30 | And that is — perhaps when receiving the undergraduate degree — that the student has reached the point when he or she intellectually can take off on his or her own , if so desired . |