Example sentences of "they should have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I think this is the way it 's done anyway , tt , er , they should have done all the rest of them . |
| 2 | Cos er they should have done that . |
| 3 | Cos er they should have done that . |
| 4 | If Lithuania had scored , as they should have done several times in the second half , maybe that would have shaken the Irish from their slumber . |
| 5 | If such low citations were offset by high publication rates for thesis-derived research , then they should have achieved higher rankings in the table above . |
| 6 | They should have fitted one of those glass bead peep-holes . |
| 7 | They should have waited two years more , Henry thought bitterly , until the people had come to hate me even more than they hated Richard . |
| 8 | The amount of people crammed into offices out here , they should have built longer trains . |
| 9 | They should have kept that up — the Castle , Bolfracks , Ballechin , Kenmore , Fortingall … |
| 10 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 11 | Frank and midfielder Tommy Larsen was the only ones getting good critcis after the game ( the fucking norw. keeper looked slow and sort of tired ( ? ) on two of the turkish goals — they should have used another one ) . |
| 12 | They should have won that , against Grimsby . |
| 13 | With their numerical superiority , they should have shown more enterprise . |
| 14 | They should have held solid at the bridge . ’ |
| 15 | According to their lines , they should have died thirty or forty years ago ! |
| 16 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 17 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 18 | They should have erm right up the top up there they should have had that for an exam room . |
| 19 | As Mr Kinsley put it , they should have had another plank : ‘ A united Ireland through consent ’ should have been followed by ‘ cheaper air fares through the abolition of gravity ’ . |
| 20 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |
| 21 | Why is it that they should have had more faith ? |