Example sentences of "i should have [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 2 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 3 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 4 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 5 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 6 | Well I should have done the financial |
| 7 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 8 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 9 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 10 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 11 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 12 | ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches . |
| 13 | Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality . |
| 14 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 15 | I should have started the annual parish meeting at seven and followed by |
| 16 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 17 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 19 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 20 | There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium . |
| 21 | I should have known the only answer ever is to stand and fight . |
| 22 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |