Meanings of suggest tentatively in English

"Maybe," he suggested tentatively, "she'd get busy and reform the whole bunch."

"Madame la Comtesse," I suggested tentatively, after a while, "your jewellery .

"Maybe there's something wrong inside the dingus itself," John Andrew suggested tentatively.

'Eh, good game,' Ross suggested tentatively, the standard platitude.

"Perhaps they have gone round by the road," he suggested tentatively.

"I think," he suggested tentatively, "that after the excitement of the last half-hour-

"I think," Miss Thorne suggested tentatively, "that that accounts perfectly for Monsieur Boisségur's disappearance."

'Perhaps, if they are not too far away, we could go and verify it,' he suggested tentatively.

"Perhaps he needs his old friends," I suggested tentatively.

"Maybe we could visit the railway station as well as Harry Crown's shop?" I suggested tentatively.

"Maybe...maybe you should leave now," she suggested tentatively.

"Maybe if you cranked it," he suggested tentatively.

"It's a pity he cannot go into the Army-he's so keen on it," she suggested tentatively.

"A hundred pound?" he suggested tentatively.

Alexia hesitated and then, recalling a phrase her husband had once offered up in the heat of annoyance, suggested tentatively, "The Parasol Protectorate?"

"Perhaps if YOU ran on and told them I was coming as fast as I could," she suggested tentatively.