Example sentences of "i should have [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land . |
| 2 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 3 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 4 | I should have rang the police straightaway , should n't I ? |
| 5 | I should have sent the drinks back , but instead looked upon them as a windfall in our rather straitened circumstances . |
| 6 | With hindsight , I know I should have seen the warning signals in the man himself , which I missed through inexperience , but the result was that a cloud of depression , a sense of failure , settled over me , and also over the whole team . |
| 7 | From his next communication I should have heard the warning note : |
| 8 | ‘ I know I should have raised the alarm then and there . |
| 9 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 10 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 11 | Well I should have done the financial |
| 12 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 13 | With such scenes as these continually around me , is it surprising that I should have entertained the idea of collecting examples of the indigenous Mammals of a country whose ornithological productions I had gone out expressly to investigate ? … ’ |
| 14 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 15 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches . |
| 17 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 18 | I should have realized the folly of my timing . |
| 19 | ‘ I should have killed the bastard , ’ Sharpe growled . |
| 20 | I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect . |
| 21 | I should have turned the tape recorder off for that should n't I ! |
| 22 | Until recently I should have rejected the premise that my earliest years represented some sort of attack upon my individuality and insisted that , on the contrary , I was surrounded with kindness and loving care — as indeed I was . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I should have joined the force like you . |
| 24 | Which is why I should have welcomed the students who wanted to talk to me about the poetry of George Darley , which a misguided colleague of mine had included in a series of lectures on the early nineteenth century , and in so doing had worried the more discerning of my students , who were failing to see any merit there . |
| 25 | I should have seized the opportunity and said to Una Stubbs , ‘ Here 's your next title , A Farewell to Arms . ’ |
| 26 | I should have started the annual parish meeting at seven and followed by |
| 27 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 28 | If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks . |
| 29 | I should have known the only answer ever is to stand and fight . |
| 30 | I had known that open fields lay at the end of the runway , so I should have closed the throttle earlier and completed the familiar drill . |