Example sentences of "[vb past] he should be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ . |
| 2 | Even some of those who suffered most under Marcos 's dictatorial reign felt he should be allowed home . |
| 3 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 4 | Yesterday Judge William Hannah jailed 37-year-old Parvis Yousefi for 18 months and recommended he should be deported from Britain . |
| 5 | A BOY of 13 thought to be responsible for a car crimewave sobbed loudly last night as magistrates ruled he should be placed in a secure unit for three months — 300 miles from his home . |
| 6 | A BOY of 13 thought to be responsible for a car crimewave sobbed last night as magistrates ruled he should be placed in a secure unit for three months — 300 miles from his home . |
| 7 | He wanted a promise that as soon as the baby appeared he should be sent for , ‘ even in the dead of night ’ so that he might be the first to kiss it . |
| 8 | At fourteen his probation officer suggested he should be sent to borstal , but Gary managed to evade that fate . |