Example sentences of "who should [vb infin] [been] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children .
2 The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again .
3 The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds .
4 They picked up scores of children who should have been in class , and found that many stay away from school with their parents ' knowledge and consent .
5 ‘ And we are still looking for the child who should have been in the premises , but was n't .
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