Example sentences of "he should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’ |
| 2 | With the funding John Makepeace has attracted he should have no difficulty finding the students . |
| 3 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
| 4 | It seems extraordinarily right that he should have died , suddenly and without struggle , on a lovely day , gazing from the Catbells ridge over Newlands to the Derwent Fells . |
| 5 | I WAS SAD to hear that ‘ Gaffer ’ ( Walter Mimpriss ) is dead , but sadder still that his obituary ( by John MacDougall , 25 September ) did not evoke the memory of a tall , lean , gangly man , with bent shoulders , who always looked as if he should have cow-dung on his theatre wellies , writes Marion Crouchman . |
| 6 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 7 | He should have talked to them as reasonable people , not shouted at them . ’ |
| 8 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 9 | In France meanwhile , Dominique Stehelin , a director of research for the National Centre for Scientific Research at the Pasteur Institute in Lille , said he should have shared in the prize . |
| 10 | Had Greenaway wished to depict the chic cuisine of the moment , he should have chosen ‘ Cuisine de Terroir ’ ( food of the earth ) — solid , gutsy , grandmother 's cooking very far removed from the nouvelle fantasia we see here . |
| 11 | Even if Shilton , inevitably cautious in his 41st year , is now most likely to be found out by teasing centres ( never mind the ‘ hand of God ’ , he should have been quicker , more positively to the ball than Diego Maradona in Mexico four years ago ) , his reliable and spectacular shot-stopping in Poland emphasised glaring inadequacies stemming from the grossly misguided philosophy that continues to gain ground in the Football League . |
| 12 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |
| 13 | If Tebbit wished to attack bias as such he should have directed his criticism at the press rather than television . |
| 14 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 15 | So he was attracted to Evans-Pritchard 's contention that ‘ the sociologist should also be a moral philosopher and that , as such , he should have a set of definite beliefs and values in terms of which he evaluates the facts he studies as a sociologist ’ . |
| 16 | In the terms of the binaries invoked , and reinstalled rightway-around , he should have been perceived as only shallow , specious , ineffectual . |
| 17 | He did n't burden the uniformed branch with his problems and he did n't see why he should have to listen to Camb 's maunderings . |
| 18 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 19 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 20 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 21 | It is typical of Lewis 's later self that he should have seen no virtue at all in Tillyard 's approach , and that furthermore he should have labelled it ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 22 | But it is entirely characteristic of Williams , whose head was always buzzing with Dante , and with the dangerous borderlines between sacred and profane love , that he should have read The Allegory in that way . |
| 23 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 24 | ‘ All the more reason why he should have been having the full attention of you both , ’ Doctor Staples said sharply . |
| 25 | No claim has yet been made by any paramilitary group about his killing and the Royal Ulster Constabulary said yesterday they were not aware of any reason why he should have been a target . |
| 26 | John Morris , the board 's secretary , has already suggested to the World Boxing Council that , since Duran was inside the middleweight limit when he lost to Sugar Ray Leonard , he should have lost that title , even though the pair were fighting for the world super-middleweight championship . |
| 27 | ‘ He should have an intensive medical examination and a complete psychological assessment before he could be considered to box Benn for that title . |
| 28 | She always said he should have stayed to fight his corner . |
| 29 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 30 | In other words , he should have treated the media business as being just like any other . |