Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have felt sorry for them , but I did n't because I was really only sorry for myself and their problems were n't mine . |
| 2 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 3 | He should have felt happy . |
| 4 | They possibly should have scored more tries , but as against England , the Welsh defended very well . ’ |
| 5 | He even sold himself short saying : ‘ I should have scored three . |
| 6 | McGeechan reflected that Scotland probably should have scored three tries and there was some suspicion about the Scottish scrummage ( though preparation for the England game in that regard will not be as fraught as last week ) . |
| 7 | Villa were quicker and slicker ; their manager , Ron Atkinson , reckoned his team should have scored 6 or more . |
| 8 | ‘ He married Diana and he should have made much more of an effort with her rather than turning to another woman for support , ’ she said . |
| 9 | It looks really , I felt like saying to him , Sid you should have made that brass then I thought no , I wo n't . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you were trying to keep it secret you should have made sure you bribed your porter not to talk . ’ |
| 11 | Stirling should have made sure of victory and further ease their own relegation worries after taking a 25th minute lead through Willie Watters . |
| 12 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not sure you should have made such an attempt , ’ said the Count . |
| 14 | It may seem strange that Vitruvius , a Roman architect in the first century BC , interpreted by Palladio , an Italian in the sixteenth century , should have made such a mark upon Georgian England , but the values of Augustan Rome and Renaissance Italy have much in common with those of the Enlightenment . |
| 15 | If he had n't been , I should have made many more mistakes than I did and been more unhappy than I was . |
| 16 | I accept that we perhaps should have made this point clear in the December magazine . |
| 17 | In the absence of coelacanths , it was still possible to toy with the idea that species and genera had their life-spans as individuals do , even though some ‘ living fossils ’ among plants should have made this more difficult than it was . |
| 18 | If it was not , then the Committee should have made this plain and opted for a different verbal formula . |
| 19 | You should have made this years and years ago should n't you ? |
| 20 | Travel agent Peter Marsh , 46 , of Colchester , Essex , said : ‘ Both should have made more effort to be together and to make the marriage work . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes I feel I should have made more of an effort with him , ’ Kate said . |
| 22 | I should have made more effort to get close to her , Claudia thought miserably ; all her efforts had been rebuffed , but , deny it or not , the bond was there and she hesitated to turn her sensitive twin over to Roman Wyatt 's not so tender mercy . |
| 23 | Steve Gaughan should have made more of a dangerous free kick on the edge of the Stoke box but fired his 20-yard effort wide . |
| 24 | He believed that if ‘ 1 had played cricket as a ‘ gentleman ’ I should have made sufficient out of my ‘ expenses ’ to retire by now . ’ |
| 25 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 26 | The earlier discussion should have made clear that the postclassical perspective does not allow for the degree of certainty or inevitability that such terms are usually taken to imply . |
| 27 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 29 | The experts should have made stronger protests while the working group was still sitting . |
| 30 | Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss . |