Example sentences of "as [pers pn] should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interpreter , as I should have known , was his police minder . |
| 2 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I never read Paradise Lost as carefully as I should have , ’ he said . |
| 4 | She 's very good to us , her elderly parents , even though I have n't always been as good a father as I should have been . |
| 5 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 6 | But Nour , as I should have known , was not one to submit to defeat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll handle this on my own , as I should have done all along , without any interference from your bloody conscience ! ’ |
| 8 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 9 | It was not as good as I should have wished , partly because I was in a hurry , but also partly because I had not yet learnt — if I was ever to master — the technique of literary criticism . |
| 10 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 11 | When I reply to debates , it is my custom to have heard all the speeches that have been made , so it is unfortunate that pressing circumstances outside the House have led me this evening to commit the grave discourtesy of not being in my place to hear as many speeches as I should have liked . |
| 12 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 13 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 14 | In her old age , she must have lots of grandchildren around her , as I should have liked . |
| 15 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 16 | I was n't two or three foot back like this as I should have been , I was up here . |
| 17 | ‘ They left early , as you should have done . ’ |
| 18 | Proportion is all , as you should have learned in your craft , and excess , as in this case , is so often unnecessary . ’ |
| 19 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 20 | One time , after he had done that , I found somewhere dark , and the Bony Lady cried ; cried as she should have done years back . |
| 21 | The intense tropical heat was debilitating and Eva was n't as wise as she should have been about her health . |
| 22 | ‘ Arthur Andersen felt that we had n't been as strong on the commercial management as we should have been . |
| 23 | What is most disappointing is the European Community 's failure to act as we should have liked . |
| 24 | Fernando , we are being very sensible and talking about this as we should have done last year . ’ |
| 25 | The only slight criticism I could have was that maybe we did n't finish as well as we should have , ’ he said . |
| 26 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
| 27 | ( Richard lacked refinement , Mrs Smith thought : his table manners were not as nice as they should have been , he turned the lavatory in the garden into a smoker 's den and he was so spoiled ! |
| 28 | The Realist approach , he remarks , gets its name from precisely this point : that it deals with human nature as it is and not as it ought to be , and with historical events as they have occurred , not as they should have occurred . |
| 29 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 30 | She regretted it almost immediately , for the boys looked embarrassed , not ashamed of themselves , as they should have been , but shy in the face of a tasteless demonstration . |