Example sentences of "we should have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’ |
| 2 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I still say we should have called the police . ’ |
| 6 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 7 | Then again maybe we should have visualised the scene in 1980/ 81 and done something about it then . |
| 8 | A number of university teachers , particularly from Oxbridge , have written to me to complain that our National Curriculum is ‘ pluralist ’ , and that we should have placed an ‘ English ’ tradition at the centre of the syllabus . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you we should have sent an ex-policeman … ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps we should have written a chapter explaining our reactions to critics such as Brian Doyle or to books such as Terry Eagleton 's Criticism and Ideology ( 1976 ) , but I doubt whether the Working Group would have easily reached agreement . |
| 11 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 12 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 13 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 14 | Francis said : ‘ We should have had a number of free-kicks in dangerous areas that could have produced things but they were n't given . ’ |
| 15 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 16 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 17 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 18 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 19 | He was in effect doing nothing … so even retaining the formation we should have had a midfielder in his postion . |
| 20 | ‘ We created a host of chances and got one goal against Peterborough , when maybe we should have had a hatful . |
| 21 | ‘ We created a host of chances and got one goal when maybe we should have had a hatful . |
| 22 | We should have had a time , we 'd of had to go home ! |
| 23 | It is on behalf of the latter that we should have had an opportunity of voting in Committee , which we were denied , and that we should have an opportunity tonight to vote in the House . |
| 24 | Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck . |
| 25 | Sole also believes that ‘ we should have had the game won by half-time ’ , and contends that Doddie Weir 's perforated eardrum — caused by Wade Dooley 's elbow — changed the course of the game . |
| 26 | ‘ We should have had the most blatant of penalties . |
| 27 | Because on the basis of the economic models and the way which we look at determinants of demand in economics , this should n't have happened , we should have had the reverse , we should have had fewer holidays being taken and certainly fewer overseas holidays . |
| 28 | Bell said : ‘ My only complaint about the game was that we should have had the penalty before Glentoran scored . |
| 29 | Maybe we should have paid the protection fee . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We should have paid the bill , you know , ’ Dangerfield said . |