Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 2 | it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons . |
| 3 | We may have discovered a statistical effect but do not understand how it operates ; the brute fact that people who have experienced unemployment are more rebellious in spirit does not itself explain why this occurs ( see diagram ) . |
| 4 | But do n't pick up any more thorns , Hlao-roo , because we may have to go a long way . " |
| 5 | We may have to make a few small changes but generally speaking we can get in pretty cleanly |
| 6 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 7 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 8 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 9 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 10 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 11 | ‘ In the old days we should have thrown a guinea-fowl or a few warthog piglets in , too . |
| 12 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |
| 13 | We must have looked a comical sight in those days : a boy and a bird ‘ dancing ’ up the road — two steps , stop , turn , two steps , turn , stop … |
| 14 | We 'll have to do a little detective work on it . |
| 15 | We 'll have to do a little pas de deux here and turn the car around . |
| 16 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 17 | Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself . |
| 18 | We 'll have to have a new carpet and different chairs and table . |
| 19 | That may be affected by the prevailing wind and we 'll have to find a suitable launching site . |
| 20 | We 'll have to find a suitable date for instance |
| 21 | Fo cos we 'll have to get a beige carpet . |
| 22 | We 'll have to rent a Belgian car anyway . |
| 23 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 24 | Thanks very much indeed for your report , Matthew , it 's certainly very informative , and in an ideal world , I think we might have made a different decision today . |
| 25 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 26 | Ideally we might have preferred a juvenile actress , but with the restrictions on the hours children can work in Television we knew we could n't do it that way . ’ |
| 27 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 28 | If it had done that , we might have had a sensible dialogue with British Rail , but it did not . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if Lewis had been allowed to live in this way , though we might have had a few more mighty works of literary history from his pen , it is doubtful whether he would have written the works for which he is more popular . |
| 30 | ‘ But if Mellor had not disputed our bill we could have survived a few more months in the hope that we would sell several houses on our books . ’ |