Example sentences of "that she should have " in BNC.

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1 Rachel had been , apparently , more relieved that Phoebe should be an unmarried mother than that she should have to have Jim as a sson-in-law .
2 She knew that she should have breasts , that she should be menstruating ; that , judging from the giggled conversations of her friends , she should have at least wanted to find out about love and sex .
3 The children did n't understand at first , but when it was later explained to them , they were enormously proud that she should have singled them out for a visit .
4 Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part .
5 Isabel had always understood Faith to mean that she should have it .
6 On Thursday the widow 's lawyers dashed to the Supreme Court to seek a directive that she should have the remains .
7 A teenager whose parent is her ‘ best friend ’ may be failing to find the friends that she should have among her peers and those outside the family group .
8 She knew that she should have won and so would everyone else .
9 As her love for Stephen had grown , she had come to see clearly that she should have been more open with him at the beginning .
10 She also knew that she should have reported the foul to Mike , who would then make an official complaint to the umpire , but she was too angry .
11 It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father .
12 First reaction from royal observers was amazement that she should have gone public at this stage .
13 She knew that she should have resented his touch , but now it comforted her .
14 That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival .
15 I do not expect to have to remind a senior staff nurse that she should have more consideration for my dining-room staff ! ’
16 Artemis looked up at her father and found him staring down at her with a deep frown , as if to say , Artemis felt , that she should have known .
17 She was not content to be insulted in cafés by waiters more rude than any to be found in Northam ; she could not accept the lowliness of her status , for it seemed to pain her more abroad than it had done at home , and she felt that she should somehow have escaped it , that she should have been changed , somehow , into something new .
18 It never ceased to amaze her that she should have given birth to such tall children .
19 And then again , ignorance er , at what she should subsequently have done er , then took over because she did n't realise that by having had er made contact with an individual erm it was necessary for her to report the matter to the police and she just did n't realise that that was something that she should have done .
20 He always spoke as if he was satisfied that she should have a life of her own .
21 It seemed very hard that she should have had to uproot herself completely while her husband could not even be bothered to accompany her on holidays to her own country .
22 He felt that she should have cared enough to confide in us , where really she cared too much and did n't .
23 It 's irritating to see her there , all nervy and squeaky , in her clothes for motoring out to the country in ; but oddly touching and pleasing that she should have come .
24 She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better .
25 It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse .
26 It was typical of everything Louise was that she should have thrown herself away on that dreadful Randall .
27 Her disciplined mind scoffed at the idea of such childish romanticism but some small stirring from the past brought this strange excitement that she should have outgrown and squashed with everything else .
28 Maggie sat silently , shocked that she should have thought such a thing .
29 It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself .
30 It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him .
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