Example sentences of "but we [modal v] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But we 'll just have to do the best we can . ’
2 ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens , ’ he said .
3 ‘ I 'm aware of my name being mentioned again as an England candidate , which is nice , but we 'll just have to see what happens .
4 We did n't say , but we might well have thought , that that was what a sports car ought to be .
5 But we would n't have done it unless we needed it copied down .
6 Yeah , but we would n't have had the story would we ?
7 But we would never have dreamt of talking about it .
8 This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control .
9 They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that .
10 In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage .
11 But we may well have seen them without registering that fact ; perhaps a film is set in a particular location and we are so involved in the plot that the background scenery enters only our subconscious mind .
12 Our vet came out early that morning with some sedative , but we need n't have bothered .
13 We will help those that we have to help legally , or perhaps those whom people want to help , but we will not have foisted upon us those who come here for a good time and a good life .
14 But we will not have finished until cruelty , be it killing or torture , is seen as obscene and impermissible . ’
15 ‘ Botham 's loss is a big blow , but we will just have to get on with it .
16 I know , but we should n't have to borrow mother when I had to get back , to borrow my wages off Jes to get her tax for her car which left us with no money !
17 I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier .
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