Example sentences of "she should have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 2 | By rights she should have been exhausted , but not a bit of it . |
| 3 | He thought she should have been a little quieter under the circumstances . |
| 4 | There is no a priori reason why she should have been modelled on the warlike goddess Minerva ( or Roma ) ; indeed , on an Italian medal made in 1564 , Anglia ( as she then was , before the unification of the kingdoms ) appears as a simple female figure dressed in the ordinary clothes of daily life . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She should have been crowned ‘ Queen of Merseyside ’ . |
| 7 | As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning . |
| 8 | She should have been rebelling against her parents , not against him . |
| 9 | She should have been trying out her identity on friends around her own age , not in front of the world 's media . |
| 10 | The Colonel had taken Sophia under his wing as a frail and dependent woman , who because of her son 's lack of responsibility must work , when she should have been maintained in comfort . |
| 11 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 12 | She should have been electric blue . |
| 13 | She should have been at home . |
| 14 | She should have been thinking about the boys ' tea , and about Frederick 's dinner . |
| 15 | She should have been sent to prison . |
| 16 | She should have been treated in the same way that an older man would be dealt with for corrupting a young girl . |
| 17 | She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new . |
| 18 | She was not contrite or sorry or any of the things she should have been . |
| 19 | ‘ And so she should have been , the ungrateful little villain ! ’ |
| 20 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 21 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 22 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 23 | Now several mornings a week when perhaps she should have been concerning herself with the house ( she delegated more and more to the housekeeper , who after all had run everything before she , Lily , had come ) , she would go and sit with Sadie , who was expecting another child at Christmas . |
| 24 | But she should have been more surprised than she sounded . |
| 25 | She should have been more suspicious . |
| 26 | ’ Right , ’ Mala said , with more crispness than she should have been able to produce . |
| 27 | Many considered she should have been a member of the royal commission on population ( 1946–9 ) but she did give evidence and published her widely read The Population of Britain in 1947 . |
| 28 | She should have been there by then . |
| 29 | She took advantage with both elbows of the luxury of padded arms , and felt soothed by the warm , impersonal darkness , the bovine torpor of those around her , and her own pleased consciousness of wasting time and money when she should have been studying . |
| 30 | She should have been grateful . |