Example sentences of "we should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( We should have had boys ! ) |
| 2 | We should have run for it . |
| 3 | We should have run for it . |
| 4 | We should have run for it . |
| 5 | We should have run for it . |
| 6 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 7 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 8 | Furthermore , we should have a shared understanding of the rules of discourse about such subjects . |
| 9 | ‘ In all honesty we should have won by at least 15 points , ’ Brian Nicholas , the Bridgend coach , said . |
| 10 | ‘ No responsible leader would press the button and we should have the courage to say so . ’ |
| 11 | We should have been shown excerpts from Wasps v Leicester and Gloucester v Bath , not to mention Neath v Bath ; though the niggly Harlequins v Wasps match would have put the indulgent enthusiasm even of Starmer-Smith under some strain . |
| 12 | Otherwise , in the production and distribution of food we should have all the corresponding phenomena to those we actually have in housing : ten million family budgets based on artificially low rents ; the machinery of house production divided sharply into two , councils building to rent , companies building to sell ; the price of rented house-room a voting issue in local and parliamentary elections . |
| 13 | But for the alteration in taxation in the Budget and also the minor alterations in projected expenditure which preceded it , we should have been facing 1968/69 with the identical prospect of a further creation of additional purchasing power . |
| 14 | The difficulty here is best demonstrated when Honderich , analyzing the notion that Conservatism is a ‘ defence of the familiar ’ , argues that if this were central to Conservatism ‘ we should have a mystery on our hands , the mystery of how an egregious idiocy could have become a large political tradition ’ . |
| 15 | Or what did they do we should have done ? |
| 16 | ‘ We should have known better , ’ came the exasperated response . |
| 17 | ‘ I think we should have a cup of tea , ’ Rose said with jollying encouragement towards Moran but when he only looked back out at her she just continued talking as she got kettle and teapot . |
| 18 | This last comment does n't mean that we can strap on our sixshooters and holsters , but rather the guns of the artillery are on call if we should have a chance to use them . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been slowed down by the lack of a new engine but we 've found a good engine in the second pack they sent us — it needs a couple of hours of work on minor jobs , but if everything goes well we should have something ready for out-inspection later this afternoon . |
| 20 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 21 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm in two minds whether we should have him at all . |
| 23 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 25 | He added : ‘ Of course , in an ideal world we should have preferred to have passports for all British nationals in Hong Kong . ’ |
| 26 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 27 | We should have fifteen or twenty minutes clear before the other Doyle gets back . |
| 28 | I suppose , technically speaking , ’ he paused , ‘ if you put her out into the road she would have no roof over her head and we should have to take her in . ’ |
| 29 | We should have had our case prepared and presented to him , spelling out what we wanted and what we could not accept , before he took his decision . |
| 30 | I think we should have started asking people a year ago . ’ |