Example sentences of "[vb past] we [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that occurred we would have the option to pull them out . |
| 2 | ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’ |
| 3 | Cheddleton Chairman Mr Phillip Oldfield commented : ‘ We have had far more requests from railways for use of the engine than we imagined we would have , it 's been a matter of accepting what we feel is the best offer . |
| 4 | ‘ Like most married couples , ’ says Matthew , ‘ we imagined we 'd have children . |
| 5 | Now if we 'd have the voice of the Funny Man guessed we would have had some postal contestant winners , but they now go back in the box with those yet to come in the next week . |
| 6 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When the lease on the Old Bells came free I grabbed it , thinking whatever happened we 'd have a job and home . ’ |
| 8 | Thus for every 80 correctly predicted we will have 20 false negatives and 200 false positives . |
| 9 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
| 10 | Do n't know who you got we 'll have to wait and see who we get . |
| 11 | Erm we discovered we could have come through this road here |
| 12 | And on our way to the crocodile farm erm we past some beautiful countryside , and on the way back one of the two jeeps broke down and after an hour they decided we would have to leave it . |
| 13 | And the good kind fireman-uncle decided we could have the bike — on small payments . |
| 14 | And we decided we 'd have her . ’ |
| 15 | Malc and I decided we 'd have to face the music and tell his parents and my Pop . |
| 16 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 17 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 18 | No we had a reasonably good dinner and , and we did n't want no tea when we come home , this could have been some of it cos all I had then when we did about seven o'clock when we decided we 'd have a bowl of soup , erm , we stuffed ourselves , we had toast and breakfast erm , we had one or two sweets in the hospital , er while we were waiting and then er , we went to Asda and then we got er |
| 19 | It meant we could have a sophisticated presentation platform literally in the middle of nowhere and people came from miles around for these outdoor meetings . |
| 20 | Sometimes one or other would misuse that privilege and perhaps shout more than was otherwise seemly , ‘ but the fact that we 'd grown up together meant we could have our rows and know that the next day one of us would apologise , and it would all be forgotten . ’ |
| 21 | I asked Joshua Rozenberg , our Legal Affairs correspondent , whether there were things from his area he felt we should have covered . |
| 22 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 23 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |
| 24 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 25 | When we moved , we knew we would have problems fitting into a smaller house . |
| 26 | When I woke once in the night I could feel the north wind blowing softly on my cheek , and knew we would have good sailing the next day . |
| 27 | Spey Valley Rotary Club were a good team and we knew we would have our work cut-out . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ We always knew we would have to deal with this at some stage — maybe in 20 or 30 years time — but the damage caused over a couple of nights during January and February was much worse than we ever anticipated . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We knew we could have done better . |
| 30 | I did n't tell you because I knew we 'd have a scene like this and I do n't like it . |