Example sentences of "should [verb] [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pinnacle of his athletic achievement should have been at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 . |
| 2 | When we got home I was surprised to see Dad sitting in his usual seat because he should have been at work . |
| 3 | Yet here was her grandson fending for himself , leaning amiably against a kitchen cupboard and eating a self-made sandwich , while his mother gave infinite attention to food for women who should have been at home attending to their own children . |
| 4 | We should have been at Ardneavie ages ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You should have been at the Washington gig at the 9.30 Club . |
| 6 | The only fascination is listening to a song that should have been at most ten seconds long and hearing some fool trying to get ten minutes out of it . |
| 7 | He should have been at the airport last evening to see Elsa Lawrence and her children off and the casket . |
| 8 | She should have been at home . |
| 9 | He should have been at boarding school , but his mother , who loved him very much , had brought him home for a month or two , because she thought his health was delicate . |
| 10 | It was a tragic irony for the Byzantines , and for Christian Europe , that the first Ottoman incursion into Europe , in 1345 , should have been at the invitation of one of the rulers of Constantinople . |
| 11 | The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes , crew cuts and sullen eyes . |
| 12 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 13 | ‘ I should have been at my parents ’ house an hour ago ! |
| 14 | My point of order is that , if the Government are having a difference with someone as important as a European Commissioner over such a substantial sum of European and public money , and with the charges that the British Treasury is laundering that money , surely a Minister should have been at the Dispatch Box today to make a statement . |
| 15 | It was the middle of the after noon , he should have been at work . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Reconstruction , the only potential co-ordinating body for post-war plans , was dismantled in June 1919 , just when it should have been at the peak of its activities . |
| 17 | It was about a week after my showdown with Quigley and I should have been at Harvest Festival . |
| 18 | He should have been at least booked in the first half , for a nasty and ‘ professional ’ foul . |
| 19 | They should have been at the scene in a quarter of an hour . |
| 20 | Saturday afternoon , I ought to have been at home it was three o'clock and I should have been at er , in Leicester then . |
| 21 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |