Example sentences of "we [verb] [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 He said : ‘ If we lose we shall have a mountain to climb .
2 As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time .
3 We agreed she must have been talking to someone … ’
4 Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference .
5 If we believed it would have an adverse effect on claims , we would discourage people from buying timber-frame .
6 We hope they will have children ...
7 And Inspector Brian Ward , in charge of the project at Chatham , Kent , said : ‘ We hope it will have a calming influence on people , not being supervised by officers who arrested them . ’
8 ‘ The way we played we 'd have come away with a result from most games . ’
9 Cheddleton Chairman Mr Phillip Oldfield commented : ‘ We have had far more requests from railways for use of the engine than we imagined we would have , it 's been a matter of accepting what we feel is the best offer .
10 ‘ Like most married couples , ’ says Matthew , ‘ we imagined we 'd have children .
11 We can see this if we consider what would have happened if the only problems animals had had to face had been those posed by the weather and other aspects of the nonliving environment .
12 Yes we support the principle , but the question about whether or not it should be in Ryedale district has not been erm answered by our members , and indeed it it we consider it should have wait , I mean this is answering something that 'll be discussed at later within this issue , something that should not be er assessed until after the er
13 We reckoned it must have been the ‘ reason for our visit ’ on our visa — to visit the Crown Prince Abdullah Abdul Aziz .
14 Erm we discovered we could have come through this road here
15 ‘ If we succeed we will have established the foundation of our lasting security into the next century .
16 Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions .
17 ‘ But their spinners are pretty useful and we know we will have to bat well second time around . ’
18 For all we know something may have happened today but I might not hear for ages
19 we know he must have had a father , from our knowledge of the world , but we did not know what he was .
20 For all we know she could have been made away with . ’
21 We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did .
22 Using this approach we believe we may have discovered the signal .
23 Her brother Howard said : ‘ We believe she might have suffered a heart attack , despite her age . ’
24 We feel we may have arrested all the gang , financiers and organisers as well as the landing party .
25 It may not help us to catch more fish , but it could help us to understand why we have n't when we feel we ought to have .
26 How can we possibly retain that self-reliance and confidence if we become more and more a nation of programmed consumers , stuffed with the produce of an automated technology over which we feel we can have little influence ?
27 ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’
28 We feel it may have upset her mentally .
29 er The first day we reckon we 'll have to cycle about er eleven hours , and the second day , slightly less time — ten hours probably , so it 's about twenty one hours cycling .
30 We reckon there must have been a hundred at the meal .
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