Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We should 've had a picture of that . |
| 3 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 5 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 7 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 8 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 9 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 10 | ‘ We created a host of chances and got one goal against Peterborough , when maybe we should have had a hatful . |
| 11 | ‘ We created a host of chances and got one goal when maybe we should have had a hatful . |
| 12 | He was in effect doing nothing … so even retaining the formation we should have had a midfielder in his postion . |
| 13 | Francis said : ‘ We should have had a number of free-kicks in dangerous areas that could have produced things but they were n't given . ’ |
| 14 | We should have had a time , we 'd of had to go home ! |
| 15 | I told you we should have ordered a pizza . ’ |
| 16 | I think we must have missed a briefing from |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I I am surprised well I do n't I 'm not surprised really they 're probably busy doing things but I thought we might have got a couple of vicars on this er this afternoon to talk about it . |
| 19 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 20 | ‘ We could 've had a pizza in town , ’ she reminded him . |
| 21 | We could have tossed a coin for Ayresome Park or Old Trafford if both clubs had agreed . |
| 22 | For years our annual mileage was as high as 37,000 — we could have saved a fortune . ’ |
| 23 | They 'd brought a poor young woman with a baby in a pushchair and we traipsed all around , in and out of houses , it was bitterly cold , and at the end of the exercise I felt we could have saved a hell of a lot of time . |
| 24 | We established that she and Sir Richard are lovers , adulterers , fornicators , and in only a matter of time we could have had a confession that they were guilty of Sir Thomas 's death as well as the . |
| 25 | We could have had a shower together . |
| 26 | ‘ If only we could have had a child . |
| 27 | Just think , colleagues , what we could have done with forty two million pounds , we could have had a conference twice a year not the biannual conference they 're on about . |
| 28 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 29 | ‘ If we did n't think we had a chance of winning the election we could have produced a manifesto that promised the earth , ’ said party chairman Kees Maxey . |
| 30 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |