Sentence examples for couldn't perhaps from inspiring English sources

In his second year there, he went as far as to ask the downtown boss whether he couldn't perhaps be given a less taxing job.

The counterargument that he couldn't perhaps be bothered to make is that Amis is writing, and doing so effectively, about a particular sort of masculinity.

MacLeish could not, perhaps, have imagined the sight of a truly whole Earth.

He instantly wrote back: "je n'en aurais peut-être pas voulu recevoir d'autre de vous, malgré ce que vous me dites de triste sur vous et votre santé" ("I could not perhaps wish to have received any other [news] from you, in spite of the sad things you tell me about yourself and your health").

I should like to ask you, Commissioner, and the rest of the Commission, to think about whether the mandate of this group of advisers could not perhaps be changed in such a way as to ensure that the group identifies and sets out for the rest of us the main ethical arguments.

Perhaps she experienced a richness I couldn't perceive; perhaps her sense of self — her soul — was even more expansive or satisfying than my own.

The warm wine had the dusty taste of chalk, and a tang he couldn't name, perhaps a metal — zinc, maybe, with the smack of cat piss.

Couldn't it perhaps Leap back into that older organism?

Couldn't she, perhaps, awaken from suspended animation?

Couldn't we perhaps give grants to disadvantaged state schools that could aspire to become academies of football excellence?

What she couldn't foresee, perhaps, was that six years later, Adam Petty Kylele's son and her grandson — would start his racing career.