Example sentences of "[verb] that he should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 3 | Count Tolstoy argued that he should have libel damages waived against him because the man with whom he shared the debt had reached a separate agreement with Lord Aldington . |
| 4 | Again , I was moved that he should have perceived how miserable an exile to the Persian Gulf would have been . |
| 5 | It was argued that he should have been sentenced to a term of detention in a young offender institution , and that he did not qualify for a custodial sentence for that purpose under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) . |
| 6 | When Dickens 's narrator is left alone in a panelled and smoke-darkened parlour , he acknowledges the influence of the Gothic novel in remarking that he should have ‘ followed the established precedent ’ and ‘ fallen into a fit of musing without delay ’ . |
| 7 | Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’ |
| 8 | The ‘ Mise ’ or Reformatio pacis given by Louis IX at Amiens on 23 January 1264 referred to Henry III as ‘ our dearest kinsman ’ ( carissimus consanguineus noster ) and declared that he should have ‘ full power and free authority in his kingdom ’ ( plenam potestatem et liberum regimen ) over his subjects . |
| 9 | Questioned closely , Austin also reveals that he should have been directly involved in the 1948 Olympics at Wembley . |
| 10 | In one well-remembered case Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had tried to insist that he should have the marriage of the probable heiress to the Viscount of Limoges , but the nobles of the Limousin , fearing " the Poitevin yoke " , successfully resisted this demand and she was given instead to a Count of Angoulême . |
| 11 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 12 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |
| 13 | It was upsetting that he should have arrived on her very first real day back . |
| 14 | I would argue with the author on the merits of the wing-down as opposed to the crab cross-wind landing techniques , and feel that he should have concentrated less on right-hand tractor American rotation engines , but other than that I ca n't fault him , and would class the book as absolutely required for anyone aspiring to be a tailwheel instructor . |
| 15 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 16 | It also contended that he should have £80,000 to buy a house , in which his carers could live upstairs , rather than £150,000 for a bungalow more suited to life in a wheelchair . |
| 17 | He feels that he should have heeded those who said that political relations between state and industry in France , and between France and the Third World , precluded the autonomous international centre he had envisaged . |
| 18 | He remembered the dark patches in Grigoriev 's beard , and thought that he should have realised their meaning . |
| 19 | Afterwards Neil Cochrane thought that he should have struck Havvie down then , but shock at learning who McAllister really was had him in its grip , and he let the shameful accusation go by . |
| 20 | Despite Philip 's passionate interest in natural history , his father insisted that he should have a recognized profession , and the choice eventually fell upon medicine . |
| 21 | The fact that Bukharin 's secondary equations gave rise to these criticisms indicates that he should have spelled out his intentions much more clearly . |
| 22 | The interests of the alleged contemnor require that he should have the right to be informed of the charges which he has to meet , to be advised and represented if he so wishes ( subject to his being eligible for legal aid or otherwise able to finance his defence ) , to be given a full and fair opportunity of meeting those charges and , if found guilty of contempt of court , to be informed in sufficiently clear terms of what has been found against him . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out . |
| 24 | He uses the same strategy in scene one when he realises that he has failed to infer from McKendrick 's prompting that he should have recognised him . |
| 25 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |