Example sentences of "we [vb past] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 At this point worrying about the language we used would have inhibited us .
2 Except at the beginning , when the eccentric lord immediately clashed with Johnson , even though Johnson says that the magnetism of Lord Monboddo 's conversation ‘ easily drew us out of our way , and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation ’ .
3 But the amount of money we received would have been so little that we thought it would be far more useful if instead I could be given a job in one of the innumerable Allied offices that had sprung up everywhere .
4 The changes we observed may have occurred as a result of an increased absorption of secondary bile acids , previously shown in patients with large and severely dysplastic polyps .
5 As one officer said to Levi : ‘ If we nicked everybody we thought might have done a long-firm , we 'd never finish our paperwork , the cases might never come to court , and if they did , they 'd never have the room to try them . ’
6 In effect we defined our own ‘ real work ’ and those activities we felt should have credence were given priority , so the role we pursued simply evolved .
7 Each of the streets through which we went might have led to it .
8 Erm and if you 've got see if you 've got a vowel and then a c sound so if we said Let's have a look at some vowels and then a c sound .
9 Well he 's not in he 's out today he 's out he and his wife are out cos we put a phone call in we said let's have a chat with him
10 Quite simply , personnel policies that we set can have major impacts on erm , the funding of our superannuation scheme , and I think that at some stage in the future , it may be appropriate to think about a seminar for both of those committee members , to look at both the the good report and the the Department of Environment scrutiny , erm So .
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