Example sentences of "should have be [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 2 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact , the lads are upset because at 3-0 up they should have been home and dry . |
| 4 | How it should have been there and |
| 5 | ‘ You should have been there when that woman came leaping out at me . |
| 6 | I should have been there when you woke this morning , cara . |
| 7 | Of course Francis should have been there as well . ’ |
| 8 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 9 | It is not easy to understand why it should have been so but France south of the Loire was undoubtedly the seedbed of the whole " courtly love " movement . |
| 10 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 11 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 12 | This regime should have been more than adequate to demonstrate any significant short-term effects of reduced sleep . |
| 13 | Mar was initially joined by eighteen lords , bringing with them some 5,000 men , which should have been more than a match for the 1,500 regular troops stationed in Scotland . |
| 14 | Indeed at first Kersal enjoyed the run of play and their half-time lead should have been more than 6 points , fly half Neil Pearson out of sorts , he missed 4 penalties . |
| 15 | We have won two out of four and it should have been more because we were in winning positions at Taunton and Liverpool . ’ |
| 16 | After two hours , I reached firmer ground but became concerned that I could not see a four hundred foot escarpment which , according to the map , should have been less than a mile ahead . |