Example sentences of "we [modal v] have [vb pp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With hindsight , we should have sacked Gray earlier and given Hankin another six games in charge . |
| 2 | We should have kept Rocky and left out Strach … |
| 3 | Many people thought we should have beaten England the last time . |
| 4 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We should have executed Sir Ralph . |
| 6 | We might have missed Stanley . |
| 7 | As the Caribbean Creoles are all fairly similar to each other , we might have expected Trudgill 's processes of " levelling " and " simplification " to have applied to produce a " British Caribbean Creole " sharing features of all the Caribbean Creoles with significant numbers of speakers in Britain . |
| 8 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 9 | We could have phoned Amy and found out there and then virtually , but I think we said oh , I , summat like i i it 's not worth bothering about , do n't matter just put . |
| 10 | We could have saved Pearce . ’ |
| 11 | There was fighting talk too from Keegan , though he did concede : ‘ We could have outthought Barnsley a bit more . |
| 12 | We could have brought Sir Ralph to justice . |
| 13 | All of which is very curious we could have sworn Colin Milburn went to good old Greencroft comprehensive . |
| 14 | We er we would have played Tottenham on the night of the Q P R game . |
| 15 | If we had known of the risk of infection we would have kept Lexie off school she would never have caught the infection and would never have died . |
| 16 | We would have fished Tony out two or three kilometres down after the water had knocked him around a bit , and given him a dreadful bootful since he was wearing his Lundhags . |
| 17 | I always shop on Sunday and I just thought that it was nice to see in the paper today it looks like we will have legalized Sunday trading everywhere for all of us fairly soon . |