Example sentences of "should never have " in BNC.
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| 1 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 2 | I should never have trusted you with it , he said . |
| 3 | ‘ He should never have gone . ’ |
| 4 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 5 | Bankside Power Station should never have been built . |
| 6 | Thrifts should never have been subsidised and led into junk in the first place . |
| 7 | He should never have let Lee go out on his own . |
| 8 | I should never have given him them keys … . ’ |
| 9 | If t re is one country that should never have gambled in this game , i is Britain . |
| 10 | Ivan Foster took the unexpected but reasonable position of arguing that sabbatarianism should never have been in the manifesto : ‘ I do not believe that that particular one is something for parties to legislate on . |
| 11 | That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth . |
| 12 | Paddocks should never have acute angles or corners of less than ninety degrees , where a horse may become trapped by others ; fences should never have barbed wire or cattle mesh in them . |
| 13 | Paddocks should never have acute angles or corners of less than ninety degrees , where a horse may become trapped by others ; fences should never have barbed wire or cattle mesh in them . |
| 14 | I should never have sent you my book . |
| 15 | I should never have come here . ’ |
| 16 | Mr George Kynock reclaimed the seat most Conservatives felt should never have been lost in the first place . |
| 17 | I should never have extended credit to you then , and I wo n't do it again . |
| 18 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 19 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 20 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 21 | If you ask me , we should never have let Mr Kebbel go . ’ |
| 22 | Hegarty also attacked the NIHT for the letting policy on its Belmont estate where , of 185 families , 48 were from outside the Derry area , 25 were policemen and 71 had made applications after 1 January 1959 : ‘ That makes 144 families who should never have been considered for housing at all , ’ he said . |
| 23 | And when this was reported , Raimondin ( he was the original knight , the husband ) said , ‘ This is all your fault , I should never have married a horrible snake . ’ |
| 24 | I should never have let your father drive me away from you . |
| 25 | If his parents had not separated , and if they had remained living in Rustenburg ( two big ifs , not necessarily related ) , it is likely that we should never have heard of John Cranko . |
| 26 | Realise that we should never have gone on holiday with Jack and Kate , but with Harry and Chrissie and their child . |
| 27 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 28 | Certainly I should never have countenanced any such career for a daughter of mine . ’ |
| 29 | The trouble was , it should never have been parked in that corner in the first place , so there was n't much the owner could say , apart from making the air blue for half an hour or so . |
| 30 | It should never have happened . |