Example sentences of "[pers pn] should have [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given a set of circumstances — and of course more height — I might have completed a turn onto an adjacent runway , but from low down and with a suitable field ahead I should have treated the reduction as an engine failure , and made an early decision to land . |
| 2 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 3 | I SHOULD have worn a hat . |
| 4 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 5 | I should have rang the police straightaway , should n't I ? |
| 6 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have sent a telegram . |
| 8 | I should have sent the drinks back , but instead looked upon them as a windfall in our rather straitened circumstances . |
| 9 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 10 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 11 | With hindsight , I know I should have seen the warning signals in the man himself , which I missed through inexperience , but the result was that a cloud of depression , a sense of failure , settled over me , and also over the whole team . |
| 12 | From his next communication I should have heard the warning note : |
| 13 | I know you do n't much like them , that I should have asked a couple of the hospital people as well as people who share my interests — ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I know I should have raised the alarm then and there . |
| 15 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 16 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 17 | Well I should have done the financial |
| 18 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 19 | With such scenes as these continually around me , is it surprising that I should have entertained the idea of collecting examples of the indigenous Mammals of a country whose ornithological productions I had gone out expressly to investigate ? … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 21 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 22 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 23 | playing with it and stuff like , I think I should have gone a while ago , actually , |
| 24 | ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches . |
| 25 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 26 | Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality . |
| 27 | I should have realized the folly of my timing . |
| 28 | ‘ I should have killed the bastard , ’ Sharpe growled . |
| 29 | I should have made a list . |
| 30 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |