Example sentences of "should [adv] [vb infin] take [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The advice offered in Chapter 8 on more effective reading was that you should only begin to take notes after a first reading — when you 've grasped the structure and got the gist of the topic being dealt with .
2 They should never have taken part in something so unnatural .
3 Almost universally , the opinion is that the trial should never have taken place , which is of little comfort to the defendants who , they say , have effectively lost two and a half years of their lives .
4 ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm .
5 What happened last night should never have taken place . ’
6 There is no contemporary support for the suggestion that Gloucester and the Woodvilles were rivals before Edward IV 's death , and that the king should therefore have taken steps to remedy the situation .
7 There is no contemporary support for the suggestion that Gloucester and the Woodvilles were rivals before Edward IV 's death , and that the king should therefore have taken steps to remedy the situation .
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