Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changing dates , numbers travelling or holiday type are major changes which we may have to treat as cancellation and subsequent re-booking . |
| 2 | If the answer is ‘ no ’ then it may be that counselling has not yet reached a sufficiently advanced stage in the process , and we may have to return to earlier stages . |
| 3 | We may have to wait for much more advanced technology before we can do that . |
| 4 | Our shop at work has sold out of the Torygraph today , so we may have to wait for the latest standings . |
| 5 | We may have to wait until the third one . |
| 6 | Secondly , if this is not possible , we may have to rely on whatever practical measures we may be able to adopt . |
| 7 | We also have had serious problems , despite razor wire and big padlocks , and if it continues we may have to move to a new town , which will do no good for this community . ’ |
| 8 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
| 9 | We may have heard from you , but erm please do tell us something about the Oxford Rainforest festival . |
| 10 | Whatever we may have said about theory permeating experience or paradigms governing science , truth will sometimes out , because nature is not a human creation . |
| 11 | ‘ We may have to decide upon additional action ’ , said Yeo . |
| 12 | Involvement is one thing , but we should never make the mistake which we may have done in relation to local government , of appearing to focus all our energies in one direction . |
| 13 | Not er not my understanding , the the and I think there is a we may have hit on the perhaps the only the only error in the whole , all the figures in this table , there should be a minus clearly in front of the three point six seven in that table . |
| 14 | After the birth , any desires we may have to rise above the physical mire are crushed as nappy-changing , spurting milk and sticky fingers involve us well and truly in the messy side of life . |
| 15 | In rejecting the " fallacy of objectivity " in stylistics , we may have seemed to be labouring the obvious . |
| 16 | ‘ If we were to look at the constitutional situation we may have to look at the position of the Princess Royal . |
| 17 | We may have to look at a few options but there are not many . |
| 18 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 19 | We should spend more time trying to bring whatever expertise we may have to bear on the subject in question . |
| 20 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 21 | ‘ If the Countess of Anjou had not been so anxious to correct any false impressions we may have had about your arrival the negotiations might have dragged on indefinitely . |
| 22 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 23 | " I do n't know what we should have done without you just now , Bigwig , " he said . |
| 24 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 25 | What we should have done of course , and did n't , was to notify the neighbours who were on fire-watching duty up and down our road . |
| 26 | I mean , there 's things we should have done by now , we 've not even looked . |
| 27 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 28 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 29 | We should have run for it . |
| 30 | We should have run for it . |