Example sentences of "we [vb mod] have [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 2 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 3 | We may have to go around . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , sure , we may have to go back to some places , if the light is wrong or something . |
| 5 | We may have to cut down on holidays and buy cheaper Christmas presents but these refugees have been lucky to escape with their lives . |
| 6 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 7 | We may have to follow up with other arrangements in the future . |
| 8 | We may have to bring in assistance from outside to deal with specific problems , and Mr Whittaker 's network of contacts could be used for this purpose . |
| 9 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 10 | When searching , we may know where to look or we may have to scan around to find out where to direct our search more intensely . |
| 11 | In a year 's time we may have to work out fresh deals for them but , whatever happens , they wo n't be leaving . |
| 12 | We may have slipped back in some fields , but in others ( such as molecular biology or pharmaceutical research ) we remain world leaders . |
| 13 | Now that Jack Kuehler has persuaded Louis Gerstner to let him go in August — we should have pointed out in yesterday 's issue that he reached retirement age last year and only stayed on because he was pressed to stick around awhiles longer by John Akers , returnee and vice-chairman Paul Rizzo gets additional powers , at least temporarily : four parts of IBM that had reported to Kuehler — its semiconductor , software , AS/400 and personal systems operations — will report to Rizzo . |
| 14 | Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be . |
| 15 | I said to dad we should have gone on Tues , Wednesday . |
| 16 | To mimic this , we should have to speed up our stroboscope so that its flashes came twice as fast as the cycles of mains electricity , which are not noticed in a fluorescent strip light . |
| 17 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 18 | We should have pushed up and caught Kernaghan offside . |
| 19 | We should have broken up before but there is every prospect of a late and long hopping in which case we should have difficulty in making the necessary attendances . ’ |
| 20 | Well , in that case I think it 's fine as long as it 's our equipment , but I think the problems always arise from it being lent out , and that 's where I you know , I do n't think we should have to sort out other people 's problems . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ We should have killed off Clare in the second-half when we had wind advantage and an extra man , but we failed to do so . |
| 22 | So that 's great but we started off with three there and we should have started off with E. So through imme a this this is intensely repetitive so that you can you 're building it up , you 're sort of doing it with numbers and then you 're doing it more |
| 23 | I thought we should have walked down and try and find her . |
| 24 | By that time we should have sorted out this business of the poison pen letter and you 'll be able to get back to a normal life again . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We should have won out of the park , ’ commented McLean . |
| 26 | ‘ Even though my father was convinced that , with our name — it is French — we must have come over , like all the best families , at the Conquest … and Colonel Moore had heard … ’ |
| 27 | To put it another way , if we came from down there ( Front ) and it is morning , the sun would be up there ( His left ) , and if it is actually over there ( His right ) and it 's still morning , we must have come up there ( Behind him ) , and if that is southerly ( His left ) and the sun is really over there ( Front ) , then it 's the afternoon . |
| 28 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 29 | We must have climbed up eight flights . |
| 30 | Now if we 'd have started off four X cubed minus X all squared we would have two times this lot but we did n't we just got once this so we must have started off this is only a coefficient only a a factor . |