Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] we [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord if , if if it was , if that was based upon illegal business we would say it was invalid , if it was based at the end of the day upon business that we would of erm permitted to have been written then we would n't have no our defence to it |
| 2 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 3 | ‘ I firmly believe United would have won the title but for Wembley , while if we 'd got there we would n't have gone up . |
| 4 | A woman came in and said perhaps we would rather have soup . |
| 5 | Someone said well we 'll just have a generic British paper because , you know , we 're going to do a story about a newspaper office and we need something like a newspaper but is n't actually one . |
| 6 | And instead of er having half day every day cos there were no prospects of , of much stuff coming through , they 'd say well we 'll all have two weeks off each . |
| 7 | This type of approach to the analysis of discourse is based on the principle that , if we can identify the boundaries of units — where one unit ends and another begins then we need not have a priori specifications for the content of such units . |
| 8 | If these skills improve then we may yet have the desired effect of improving the flow of the ball . |