Example sentences of "should [verb] [been] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 2 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 3 | But with the Official Custodian sending back these investments , the trustees will have to think of what they should have been thinking about years ago : management of their trust funds . ’ |
| 4 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 5 | When Lloyd George talked about the Empires and Kingdoms , kings and crowns of Europe falling like withered leaves , he should have been talking about the millions of ordinary people , the music and laughter and minutiae of countless lives , washed away like a child 's map drawn on a slate left out in the rain . |