Example sentences of "we [vb mod] have [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have met the murderer , yet it may equally be someone in the Tower or the city about whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 2 | Using this approach we believe we may have discovered the signal . |
| 3 | ALONG with many other newspapers , we may have given the impression that California was suffering from a five-year drought ( ‘ The other desert war ’ , February 16th ) . |
| 4 | But in the end , we may have to save the honour of Genoa the Superb by attacking her . ’ |
| 5 | Although the project can provide advocates , Hickson says it may be some time before mothers want this service , and even then , ‘ we may have to keep the counselling and advocacy work separate ’ . |
| 6 | The State Paper Office , a most convenient fire-proof building , which cost the public £50,000 , is , we hear , to be pulled down ; and the mania for pulling down is to extend not only to it , but , in order to complete the ‘ congruity ’ , we should have to Gothicise the Horse Guards , and apply Gothic exteriors to all buildings in the neighbourhood . |
| 7 | Then again maybe we should have visualised the scene in 1980/ 81 and done something about it then . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we should have to ask the French for help . |
| 9 | The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on |
| 10 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 11 | Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays . |
| 12 | Sole also believes that ‘ we should have had the game won by half-time ’ , and contends that Doddie Weir 's perforated eardrum — caused by Wade Dooley 's elbow — changed the course of the game . |
| 13 | Bell said : ‘ My only complaint about the game was that we should have had the penalty before Glentoran scored . |
| 14 | Maybe we should have paid the protection fee . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We should have paid the bill , you know , ’ Dangerfield said . |
| 16 | It was breathtaking to be told by the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) that we should have approached the Opposition to see whether we could negotiate a deal . |
| 17 | I think we must have hit the sea … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was with someone else and we must have misread the address . |
| 19 | ‘ You can if you like , ’ said Sam , ‘ but that means we 'll have to lay the table . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll have to give the future of your column some thought . |
| 21 | and you 'll be pleased to know that because we 've waffled on for so much we 'll have to save the county 's peculiar pastimes until tomorrow , |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll be locked , ’ groaned Yanto , ‘ we 'll have to tackle the bastard between us Bill . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have to spend the night at our own places . |
| 24 | ‘ That means we 'll have to spend the rest of our time flat on our bellies . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I want to run , but if the top-weight is in the field we 'll have to miss the race , ’ Turnell said . |
| 26 | ‘ If we ca n't expand ’ , they say , ‘ we 'll have to leave the area and dozens of jobs will be lost . ’ |
| 27 | That would explain why it appears in half the songs , which apparently deal with starvation , AIDS and the end of the world along the way , although we 'll have to take the press release 's word for that . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'll have to tell the mistress her husband 's still alive . |
| 29 | I says , ‘ We ca n't have that — we 'll have to get the feller . |
| 30 | Well we 'll have to get the carpet . |