Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the salt would sting into a cut or raw spot on my body , bringing back bodily feeling in one fell swoop , or else , from somewhere in the bowels of building , my ears , questing for the remotest of stimuli , would pick up on the sound of a toilet being flushed , or perhaps a trolley banging against a wall . |
| 2 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 3 | Or perhaps a tongue stuck out would be even more so . |
| 4 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 6 | The postal service was rather vague in these remote villages , and perhaps a letter had gone astray , for when we arrived at what we thought would be our host 's house , we found that the old perpetua did not know we were coming . |
| 7 | It is not inconceivable that the parts were doubled , thus involving six players , and perhaps a bassoon played the bass line while Hymen sang . |
| 8 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 9 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |