"By the early 1960s, he was probably sleeping with three of his female employees.
They took her when she was probably sleeping, still in her pyjamas.
Ann Allan has lived in the east end of Glasgow for almost all of her life, but her new house is a bit different to the others – not least because a year ago, an elite athlete was probably sleeping in her living room.
Occasionally, a window of time would open, late at night, when Mike's baby was probably sleeping anyway, or not sleeping, and his beeper wasn't beeping, and exhaustion itself seemed like some curse that had miraculously been lifted from us alone.
That first night in the cramped front room of my aunt's apartment, the radio was on with the volume turned down (the baby was probably sleeping), but I could still hear the crispness that French words retained even when coated in a ballad.
Among the dozens of complications, the most common is probably sleep apnea, in which tissues at the back of the throat periodically suffocate the sleeper, whose nights are thus far from restful and whose days suffer as a result.
"You were broadcasting to patients who were probably sleeping after an operation," she said.
In my case, the answer to the question "do you remember what you were doing when JFK was shot?" is: probably sleeping or being sick.
Though it was a rainy Friday morning and most of the students were probably sleeping (I, too, remember avoiding Friday morning classes), I liked what I saw.
But Mr Yudhoyono is probably sleeping better these days than most of his regional counterparts; and better than he himself could have hoped just a few months back.
On this year's rough sleeper count in Manchester, I can say that fewer people were probably sleeping out than they were in 1980s and 90s.
