Example sentences of "should have been [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 6 | The fact that an unknown " civilian " should have been consulted about what was indeed a purely Service matter , should be weighed against Bennett 's unequalled background and experience . |
| 7 | But the work could last for as long as 11 weeks and local councillors have claimed that they should have been consulted about the scheme . |
| 8 | I also hoped she had n't told him about Frankie 's and my rudeness although why I should have been bothered about him I ca n't think . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Politicians representing other Basque parties have therefore felt left out , and believe the public should have been informed about the negotiations at the beginning , in view of the huge scale of the financing involved . |