Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may try to explain them by pointing to the place they occupy in the larger narrative . |
| 2 | We have n't mentioned eggs to the Central Criminal Police in Helsinki but the Security Police are getting interested and we may have to give them at least some explanation of the raw egg on Kaarna 's body . |
| 3 | ‘ The goalscoring situation is uppermost in our minds and we may have to do something about that . |
| 4 | If not we may have to lock them in their bedrooms . |
| 5 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . |
| 6 | But we may have to prepare ourselves for his absence . ’ |
| 7 | As one consultant said : ‘ We may have overdone it to the extent that , apart from in certain industries , risk management may well already be regarded as old hat . ’ |
| 8 | Mike tells me that there is a remote possibility we may have misjudged you after all , so why do n't you try spinning me this fairy-tale ? ’ |
| 9 | Erm missing procedures we have decided that Jenny is going to write T G I , Beety will write B T and we are going to write something on access and we may need to write something on erm Health and Finance and those documents we have got in the Master File . |
| 10 | As you will appreciate , we will be collecting feedback on any research you carry out within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with the tape , we ought to try to supply it to you as soon as possible . |
| 11 | We ought to have known it from the moment Mrs Thatcher was made a member of the Order of Merit , one of the top 24 in the land . |
| 12 | Not only was it edible , it was superb , we should 've captured it on camera . |
| 13 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 14 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 15 | ‘ If the Europeans fight like hell over new investment and where European headquarters should be , maybe we should consider running everything from here in Detroit , the way it used to be . |
| 16 | We should have done them off peak as well should n't we ? |
| 17 | We should have done something like the RAND health insurance experiment . |
| 18 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 19 | We should have kept it on hold . |
| 20 | To marry by special licence , and if necessary without her parents ’ permission , so that before I went away again we should have become one in body as we were in — dare I say spirit ? — at any rate , in mind . |
| 21 | yeah , we should have to put you on the book |
| 22 | Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions . |
| 23 | We should have beaten them at their place as well . |
| 24 | Now , we should have left it at that , but we were too drunk to run , whilst the clerks were sober and quick-witted . |
| 25 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 26 | I have always felt that on these policy study groups we must avoid restricting ourselves to those who are already fully committed politically to the Conservative Party . |
| 27 | But since those divisions are abolished in Christ , in experience we must aim to abolish them in practice . |
| 28 | Instead of feeding our fear , we must start to detach ourselves from it . |
| 29 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 30 | The head estimates that : overall we must have put something like £2000 into the library in terms of pure cash and obviously almost the equivalent in terms of hours of time given . |