Example sentences of "should [adv] have taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should never have taken part in something so unnatural . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a sham of a marriage that should never have taken place , and you 're doing no one any harm . |
| 4 | What happened last night should never have taken place . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |