Example sentences of "should [vb infin] kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Should 've kept my gloves on , what ? ’ |
| 2 | They should have kept that up — the Castle , Bolfracks , Ballechin , Kenmore , Fortingall … |
| 3 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 4 | I told her Barry should have kept him in , and she said if I started criticizing him , she 'd get Don to the phone . ’ |
| 5 | I should have kept my mouth shut because he manoeuvred his machine until it was touching my midriff . |
| 6 | I should have kept cool . |
| 7 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 8 | You should have kept her i' the family . |
| 9 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 10 | ‘ But I possibly should have kept hold of Edward Sheringham . ’ |
| 11 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
| 12 | In retrospect Steve feels they should have kept going , since the easiest way down was over the summit and onto the North-West Ridge . |
| 13 | ‘ If you did n't want me to hit you , you should have kept your mouth shut . ’ |
| 14 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 15 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 16 | The fact of it was , Amanda should never have brought him in here at all ; she should have kept him in Reception , as per company policy . |
| 17 | I should have kept quiet and remained as the focus of disapproval . |
| 18 | Here they were , chasing after him when caution should have kept them away . |
| 19 | I think that parson who discovered you were a d'Urberville should have kept quiet . |
| 20 | If he wanted a real , one hundred per cent unprejudiced check he should have kept quiet . |
| 21 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 22 | Feeling as she did , and knowing he was committed elsewhere , she should have kept her distance . |
| 23 | On Sept. 6 the military authorities in Myanma arrested two high-ranking members of the opposition National League for Democracy ( NLD ) , acting chair Kyi Maung and Chit Khaing , on charges of " passing state evidence that they should have kept to themselves to an unconcerned person " . |
| 24 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 25 | And I should have kept it to myself . |
| 26 | You should have kept your biting friend on a shorter leash . ’ |
| 27 | We should have kept Rocky and left out Strach … |
| 28 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ If you did n't want to be part of my ‘ performance ’ , ’ she said sharply , ‘ you should have kept out of it . ’ |
| 30 | He should have kept the letter . |