Example sentences of "we know [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ But their spinners are pretty useful and we know we will have to bat well second time around . ’ |
| 3 | For all we know something may have happened today but I might not hear for ages |
| 4 | we know he must have had a father , from our knowledge of the world , but we did not know what he was . |
| 5 | For all we know she could have been made away with . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When we moved , we knew we would have problems fitting into a smaller house . |
| 8 | Spey Valley Rotary Club were a good team and we knew we would have our work cut-out . |
| 9 | ‘ We knew we could have done better . |
| 10 | No one had investigated inner-city language in this way before , so for all we knew there might have been no significant differences at all , and we were told by at least one colleague — not very encouragingly — that ‘ Broad Belfast ’ dialect was all very much the same . |
| 11 | But we knew he would have wanted the wedding to go ahead . |
| 12 | We knew he 'd have a quick one while he was there . |
| 13 | For all we knew it could have been 12 feet , since the weather was so bad at the top we could see no further than someone wearing a ski anorak and wellingtons sitting beside us . |