Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 2 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the birth , any desires we may have to rise above the physical mire are crushed as nappy-changing , spurting milk and sticky fingers involve us well and truly in the messy side of life . |
| 5 | ‘ If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal . |
| 6 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 7 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 8 | I knew we should 'ave met in the pub , ’ he said lightly . |
| 9 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 10 | WE should get rid of the monarchy , the House of Lords and the honours system . |
| 11 | And his adviser said well Mr President you did say we should get rid of the missiles in Turkey but you did n't say when you know , you did n't say by Tuesday morning at ten o'clock or by next week or in three months ' time , you just said withdraw the missiles from Turkey . |
| 12 | Now we should get rid of the problem , but what about the waterways in there . |
| 13 | ‘ With a bit of luck we should get picked for the Russian ship tomorrow Bill . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but I thought we should get cracking in the car . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel we should try to talk about the happenings of the last few days . |
| 16 | We never in practice achieve the homogeneity of physical properties we should like to assume in the applications of elasticity theory . |
| 17 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 18 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 19 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 20 | We should have headed for the nearest faux French bistro , be we had not finished our ‘ 89 Cloudy Bay Sauvignon blanc which nobody could spoil , so we sat it out . |
| 21 | ‘ We should have gone with the others . |
| 22 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
| 23 | We should have eaten at the pub . |
| 24 | The odd thing was that once on reciprocal we should have passed near the Koln area , with its attendant flak and searchlights , but not a sign . |
| 25 | Here we consider the economics of the project — perhaps the most important of the arguments that will be aired at the Inquiry — and the lessons that we should have learned from the world 's most serious civil reactor accident so far , that at Three Mile Island . |
| 26 | One would be if- I will not say the Labour Party but the extreme Labour Party — were to get so powerful that it would be a menace and we should have thrown on the other scale all that was moderate in the Liberal Party as well as our own Party . |
| 27 | The question whether we should have proceeded with the Gulf war is another issue , but I remind the House of the repeated statements by my right hon. Friend , President Bush and others as to the limited purpose of that operation . |
| 28 | And of course another very clear example of the overlap between domestic concerns and international concerns is Maastricht and the great debate that 's gone on in Britain about whether or not we should have agreed to the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 29 | During the next few months and years , we must avoid continuing in the trap that we were in before . |
| 30 | We must seek to discover through the experimental work of small teams which approaches have the best chances of success , before committing the battalions . |