Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought Clarke should have scored a second goal when he went through . ’ |
| 2 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 3 | I believe the government should have conducted a proper and wide review into the role and duty of auditors , not just in the area covered by these orders , but also throughout the whole of industry . |
| 4 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 5 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 6 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 7 | I should have made a list . |
| 8 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 9 | One hundred and seventy years have passed since the proclamation of the Hatt-i-Sherif , and in the course of all that time a State like Serbia in Europe should have made a far greater civilisational , cultural and economic leap . |
| 10 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 11 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 12 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 13 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 14 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 15 | It was ironical that he should have made a magical 153 against Notts , while England 's batsmen floundered at Old Trafford . |
| 16 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 17 | That such a natural loyalist should have met a traitor 's end reflects all Edward II 's failings as a political manager . |
| 18 | The press-gang gave politicians an effective method of giving a very real service to the parties more directly concerned , and it was one which should have created a lasting sense of obligation , for life before the mast in one of His Majesty 's ships was not likely to be easily forgotten . |
| 19 | Prima facie , the development of a capital-goods sector should have created a vested interest in innovation in the consumer-goods industries , as well as a major new outlet for independent inventors of production machinery . |
| 20 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 21 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 23 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 24 | I SHOULD have worn a hat . |
| 25 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 26 | In retrospect , for example , many Gaullists concluded that he should have formed a Gaullist movement of the kind that he formed , too late , in 1947 — a movement that could have channelled popular adulation into usable political support . |
| 27 | All ( 1991 ) Group members should have received a free copy . |
| 28 | Businesses identified by Customs as needing to complete SSDs should have received a copy of the Intrastat Classification Nomenclature , which provides classification codes for goods to be recorded on the SSDs . |
| 29 | Should have received a letter that is lost ; or |
| 30 | These included care of the mentally ill ( which then also included the elderly with mental disability ) — these categories which should have received a bigger slice of the cake , actually received a smaller percentage of health board funding during the funding period from 1981–82 to 1985–86 . |