Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are defined early on in our lives as bad and worthless we may become addicted to guilt . |
| 2 | In 1949 , Amaldi wrote to the Italian prime minister asking for permission to produce and sell sealing wax for letters , ‘ so that we may raise needed funds for our physics lab ’ . |
| 3 | She thinks that we may have sent her too many book tokens , ‘ but ca n't check . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | We may have met the murderer , yet it may equally be someone in the Tower or the city about whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 6 | Whatever we may have felt , however , we had to be careful not to show too much dislike , because the Repubblichini were gaining strength all the time . |
| 7 | That 's why I would expect to see and we planned to some extent , we may have under-planned an increase in costs . |
| 8 | ‘ We may have gone too far in stressing the rights of children at the expense of upholding the responsibilities of parents and professionals in supervising them ’ , she said . |
| 9 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 10 | We may have made a mess of most of them , including parliamentary democracy , but the cricket culture we have successfully assimilated and , as Graham Gooch may tell you , perfected . |
| 11 | Disco said ‘ We may have made some mistakes in our business plan when we chose to go for growth . |
| 12 | We may have witnessed the ‘ moment ’ of the ‘ technocop ’ ( BSSRS , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | In such cases , we may have cited ; collector 's name ( see Appendix ) in italic and date , author(s) and date in normal type for literature records e.g. Harrison ( 1941a ) , see appendix for bibliography , the herbarium code name for voucher specimens . |
| 14 | Using this approach we believe we may have discovered the signal . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | We take into ourselves aspects of our parents that we may have denied previously . |
| 17 | looks like we may have struck lucky , cross fingered and everything else |
| 18 | ALONG with many other newspapers , we may have given the impression that California was suffering from a five-year drought ( ‘ The other desert war ’ , February 16th ) . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Now we have in the room here a tremendous amount of experience , of people who 've been in the industry , people who 've worked with this company for many , many years , and we 've also got people with us who have not been with us very long , and I 'd you to know we may have covered certain aspects of this on sales skills courses just to talk through what the point of the exercise is , I E what we do for a living . |
| 21 | We may have heard from you , but erm please do tell us something about the Oxford Rainforest festival . |
| 22 | This includes the particular stressful lifestyle we may have become locked into . |
| 23 | If our policies had achieved wider media coverage , we may have achieved greater support , but there is a foundation there on which we intend to build . |
| 24 | Whatever we may have said about theory permeating experience or paradigms governing science , truth will sometimes out , because nature is not a human creation . |
| 25 | Involvement is one thing , but we should never make the mistake which we may have done in relation to local government , of appearing to focus all our energies in one direction . |
| 26 | ‘ We may have done . |
| 27 | Well I did n't yeah well we may have done |
| 28 | ‘ We may have hit paydirt , Chief , ’ said the agent tersely . |
| 29 | Not er not my understanding , the the and I think there is a we may have hit on the perhaps the only the only error in the whole , all the figures in this table , there should be a minus clearly in front of the three point six seven in that table . |
| 30 | And the toner actually closes the pores , because we may have opened those pores slightly by using the cleanser , and also , if there is any cleanser left on the skin the toner will remove that as well . |