Example sentences of "[pers pn] should have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 2 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 3 | I should have been a lesbian ! |
| 4 | I should have been on my guard . |
| 5 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 6 | And perhaps I should have been , because I wanted to do the other as well . ’ |
| 7 | Once I got in well hungover at four in the afternoon when I should have been there at 11 . |
| 8 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 9 | I should have been as timid as the girl herself , if she had looked at me ! |
| 10 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 11 | I should have been able to say , Fuck you , I 'll go my own way : as you did , as Sergei did . |
| 12 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 13 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 14 | I should have been more alert . ’ |
| 15 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I know I should have been stronger , Lachlan . |
| 17 | In fact , if the treatment really worked I should have been Elastoplasted all over . |
| 18 | ‘ Had I paid heed to the advice of many people in England … and adopted masculine garments , I should have been spiked to the bone , and done for . ‘ |
| 19 | It seems strange now , fifteen years on , that I should have been so conscious of this . |
| 20 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 21 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |
| 22 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 23 | Personally I should have been quite glad to get someone else 's boots . |
| 24 | I do not recall being frightened , although I should have been . |
| 25 | I was still lackadaisical about my training , still playing dominoes in Mick 's cafe when I should have been out running repetition 300 metres on the West London track . |
| 26 | The previous night I had got carried away , talking at length to the press and television when I should have been back in our quarters calming down , relaxing and getting some sleep . |
| 27 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 28 | If he had been admitted sooner , I should have been more optimistic . |
| 29 | I know I should have been . |
| 30 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |