Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [adv] have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We may not have seen the last of this controversy .
2 We may not have watched the Toraja dynasty ascend through a flaming village circle , but we had witnessed one of its sons , very close , leap through a flaming hoop and land on his feet .
3 We may already have built a rewarding business relationship together and feel that by offering you the shell Account Card this will help to consolidate it .
4 With Labour , like Lamont , pledged to abolish the Budget as such , we may just have heard the last Tory Budget of all .
5 After the threats of the early '80s we may well have relaxed a bit .
6 In our self-absorption , we may never have seen the fullness of joy that we can experience when we begin to know the character of God .
7 Asked why , knowing that such practices were illegal yet widespread , he had not made a stand against them , Sir Henry replied : ‘ Because we should not have got the players . ’
8 Obviously the limits : we should not have taken the wires infinitely thin .
9 Gilda : ‘ If we were ordinary , moral , high-thinking citizens we should n't have had an affair at all . ’
10 We should perhaps have asked the Trees the best path to take , ’ said Floy , presently .
11 We should all have received a report from Roger about one or two accidents that have occurred on sites .
12 We should never have joined the ERM . ’
13 Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place .
14 ‘ Never mind the rights or wrongs of the decision , we should never have given the referee the opportunity to give a penalty in a situation like that .
15 We should never have let the world think I wrote them .
16 We should never have scrapped the O-level and we must certainly keep the A-level . ’
17 Without him we might not have won the Championship or be in a position to be playing Rangers .
18 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
19 We might even have experienced a glow of self-righteousness , believing that we were helping to solve a , social problem' .
20 Could we have seen W. C. T. at work in his shop , we might well have appreciated the importance of a silver tongue .
21 ‘ Had Father brought Winnie back to Winnipeg we might never have had the Pooh stories , ’ says Fred Colebourn , Harry 's son .
22 If you had kept your mouth shut , Friar , we might perhaps have gained the truth .
23 Had we kept the scheme going , we could soon have accumulated a sizeable fighting force , ready to do battle on land , sea or air and happy to seize the controls of any passing battle-sub .
24 We could n't have understood the message , but we sensed undisclosed meaning and were afraid .
25 Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole .
26 We could n't have left a tap on , as we had taken the precaution of turning the water off at the mains , so where could it be coming from ?
27 If he had n't agreed to appear we could not have raised the cash to make the show . ’
28 It may be that we could not have had the best of Connors without the worst of him . ’
29 In our January issue , we omitted to say that we could not have taken the photographs of readers in all the colours of the rainbow without the cooperation of Debenhams in Western Road Brighton .
30 Mr Robin Cook , shadow Health Secretary , said : ‘ We could not have chosen a better issue to put centre stage for the first televised session of Parliament . ’
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