Example sentences of "he should have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’ |
| 2 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 3 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
| 4 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 5 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 6 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 7 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 8 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 9 | I thought Collimore had good break three against two and I thought the the ball he should have played he should have measured a ball into er Kingsley Black 's stride . |
| 10 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 11 | Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 12 | No one will explain why he should have had a turtle-shell to lie in instead of some more orthodox cradle , but during the anti-monarchical excesses of the French Revolution this venerable carapace is said to have been saved from destruction by a naturalist of Pau , who was able to switch it for one without any such incriminatory associations from his own collection . |
| 13 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |