Example sentences of "[pron] should have [vb pp] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone should have said all this to him years ago . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I should have said all religious groups . |
| 3 | Well of course I , I should have done all this last year , you know . |
| 4 | I am beginning to wonder whether I should have granted this private notice question . |
| 5 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 6 | I sh I should have brought that Irish woman in . |
| 7 | I should have caught some more waves so they could n't underscore me . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone in overall charge of training who should have had some formal training in that field themselves ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Rochester , you should have sent that little girl — Adèle , is that her name ? — to school , but I see you have a governess for her . |
| 10 | In fact , she should have said all this to Faye weeks ago . |
| 11 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 12 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 13 | ‘ We should have noticed that spiky nose anywhere . ’ |
| 14 | Well , they erm seem to think we should have had some yellow in it for some obscure reason to match the programme , but I do n't know , I thing it would have taken the erm the look off the thing . |
| 15 | " By April 15 , we should have resolved all these issues : the date for elections , the establishment of a single army , the approval of laws . " |
| 16 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |
| 17 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 18 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 19 | It 's the I not , I mean he should have grouted that little bit and he should n't have put |