Example sentences of "should [vb infin] done [art] " in BNC.

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1 We trained on an artificial pitch for two days this week and we should have done a lot better . ’
2 ‘ He should have done a bit of minding years ago . ’
3 We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’
4 ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better .
5 In fact er they should have done a lot better , but a lot of Conservative voters did n't bother going out to vote cos it was a foregone conclusion .
6 Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ?
7 The right hon. Gentleman should have done a little more research .
8 She should have done a bit more than that actually .
9 Yeah , should have done a sounds like as well .
10 While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election .
11 TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism .
12 I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April .
13 Er th they should have done the estimate
14 If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all .
15 However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after .
16 Still , at least if Lewis was watching us it should have done the trick .
17 You should have done the ward round by then .
18 Well I should have done the financial
19 I should have done the Financial Times .
20 ‘ This is something I should 'ave done a very long time ago .
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