Example sentences of "she should have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have drunk more of the wine . |
| 2 | Downstairs is now vacant , and she should have quit last weekend . |
| 3 | Discreetly looking at the price , and mentally reviewing how much money she had on her , and thinking wryly that perhaps , after all , she should have accepted half the prize money for the leprechaun , she bought it . |
| 4 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 5 | In three months , too , while she knew she would n't get a job that paid as well as the one she had now , she should have secured another job , should n't she ? |
| 6 | ‘ I really ca n't imagine why she should have said that , Commissioner . |
| 7 | In fact , she should have said all this to Faye weeks ago . |
| 8 | ring her up and have a word with her and she 'll probably send you a copy of the letter she sent she should have done that . |
| 9 | She should have become angry with him for his persistence , on cue , but for some reason she did n't . |
| 10 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 11 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 12 | Maggie sat silently , shocked that she should have thought such a thing . |
| 13 | She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days . |
| 14 | This much was true , that I often found myself in my mother 's kitchen staring at the array of condiments , spices , herbs and tinned foods , wondering why she should have bought this particular kind of split peas , rather than another . |
| 15 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
| 16 | She should have expected this turn-around . |
| 17 | Yes she should have got those . |
| 18 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 19 | then you er everyone sang Happy Birthday and somebody arrived down the aisle with a couple of balloons for her should have done that for me too , on my |