Example sentences of "we [vb mod] n't have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perverse conditioned psychological needs require some of our best thinking to solve — but then we should n't have let them become habits in the first place . |
| 2 | Gilda : ‘ If we were ordinary , moral , high-thinking citizens we should n't have had an affair at all . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But — but would that mean we should n't have our Pack Meetings each week , Trusty ? ’ she asked in a tone that meant she just could n't believe in such an awful thing happening . |
| 4 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 5 | ‘ We should n't have took umbrage this morning , only — what with the people down here being so stand-offish , like , we got sort of sensitive about sausages . |
| 6 | Guilt is not a true emotion ; it is a cover-up for other feelings which we feel we should n't have . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe this is one we should n't have lost , either . |
| 8 | ‘ We should n't have … stood around … looking ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Then we should n't have any problems at all . ’ |
| 10 | This , it turned out , was ‘ that we should n't have intercourse until we 're engaged ’ . |
| 11 | Well this , this was a letter of the , granted it was eighty nine , but I mean this paragraph just said , you know , if we , does say that , you know , if we established a , a demand , and I do n't see why we should n't have a bash at . |
| 12 | He 's such a duffer ; we should n't have brought him up . |
| 13 | Of course we should n't have expected anything , but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each , and St John would have been able to help so many more poor people ! ’ |
| 14 | but even so we would like to think that erm that we can do the design work surely for the original tender figures , er and hope that our erm our drawings and er specifications are such that erm , and our site investigations are such that we should n't have major claims appearing on on our jobs . |
| 15 | We should n't have met at the apartment . |
| 16 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 17 | We should n't have insisted , ’ said Bob . |
| 18 | And from a great distance , heard Caspar say with irritation , ‘ Damn and blast , I knew we should n't have trusted those Gnomes — ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps we should n't have left her on her own . ’ |
| 20 | It 's er , yeah that should be fine , we should n't have any great problem with that . |
| 21 | But er they might have been assumptions that we should n't have made . |
| 22 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 23 | We should n't have done it . |
| 24 | ‘ We should n't have all these campaigns to get the Birmingham Six released , if they 'd been hanged . |
| 25 | ‘ Is there some reason why we should n't have minds of our own ? ’ she demanded sharply . |
| 26 | well , I have one , and I think that 's expensive enough , but regarding the licence extra money , I think that we should n't have to pay any television licence at all with some of the programmes that we 're getting on , they 're all repeated |
| 27 | Ooh dear , I knew we should n't have done this . |
| 28 | We should n't have let him become chairman . |
| 29 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 30 | " We have no regional specialities and no speciality which logically we should n't have in terms of patient flows and the population served . |