Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved . |
| 2 | If we paid cash , we might have had to go to shareholders for a rights issue . ’ |
| 3 | I suppose it was because we would have had to talk about it then , and you 'd already decided you were n't going to do that . |
| 4 | We ate in the kitchen , though if my steak had been much bigger we would have had to move into the garage as well . |
| 5 | Mr. Bickerstaffe goes on to repeat : ’ We would like to have argued for a higher minimum wage , for example , but the party has said no , there are others — pensioners and so on . |
| 6 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |