Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've worn the jeans and jersey , like my posey mate . |
| 2 | I should 've painted the picture |
| 3 | You should 've heard the different birds . |
| 4 | He had been speaking of his wife , and Constance had been surprised , for this was the language of love and quite unlike the more usual ‘ Cor , you should 've seen the pair she had on ‘ er . ’ |
| 5 | Anyway talking of nonsense you should 've seen the bill I was sent for my council tax it was quite pricey . |
| 6 | I shot the sheriff but I should 've shot the deputy |
| 7 | ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You should 've got the four-inch ducts finished on schedule , ’ the landlord said . |
| 9 | Oh what a shame should 've bought the eggs stand there and all watch me . |
| 10 | He should haev held the children at the scene and called the police . |
| 11 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 12 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 13 | The majority communists forced a vote through the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet on Nov. 14 to strip Khmara of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution , despite the fact that the lack of a quorum should have made the vote invalid . |
| 14 | I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect . |
| 15 | The date by which all supplies should have met the Directive 's standard was July 1985 , but little was done in the UK as the government hoped to negotiate a laxer standard . |
| 16 | It was a coincidence that , once again , Branson should have met the object of his romantic attentions at the Manor , early in 1976 . |
| 17 | This huge increase should have allayed the peasants ' suspicions of the new regime , but this was hot the case . |
| 18 | The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed . |
| 19 | Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? |
| 20 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 21 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 22 | He should have kept the letter . |
| 23 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 24 | You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it . |
| 25 | He should have kept the studio in time for some |
| 26 | ‘ You should have ambushed the beast when you had the chance , ’ croaked Ferd . |
| 27 | Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) found evidence of the extinction effect in only two of their six experiments and were able to offer no very convincing account of why these two studies ( which used a somewhat different test procedure from that used in the others ) should have generated the result they did . |
| 28 | When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ . |
| 29 | Oh , she should have paid more attention to him when they lay close ; she should have absorbed the hollows and smoothness of his brow and learned him by heart . |
| 30 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |