Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] at " in BNC.

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1 We should have eaten at the pub .
2 Luton had the best of the chances … should have scored at least one … thankfully Swindon managed to escape with a point …
3 The orders were indeed issued , and the attack should have begun at 4.30 a.m. on August 26 .
4 I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal .
5 I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ?
6 Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born .
7 The tall beans should have gone at the back .
8 They should have placed at their disposal Inigo Jones 's original designs for Whitehall Palace , ‘ which are of acknowledged beauty ’ .
9 The fire which should have flared at the entrance was a pile of wet ash and the oil-topped torches were extinguished .
10 It is hardly surprising that he should have jumped at the chance of establishing his ‘ Samba school ’ in Paris .
11 It is clear that the therapist should have endeavoured at a much earlier stage to involve the parents in treatment , preferably by means of conjoint sessions with Pamela and her parents together .
12 ‘ I should have stayed at home , ’ said Cameron .
13 The lads said I should have stayed at home .
14 ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ .
15 Marius was dismissive about both of them and thought that if they could n't manage two weeks of bedmaking and personal organisation then they should have stayed at home .
16 I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me .
17 As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ .
18 We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences .
19 ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well !
20 ‘ You should have taught at schools at Oxford . ’
21 ( Now the chaplain thinks I should have sprung at him .
22 If you really wanted to learn something you should have started at the top .
23 She should have started at seven — and found the body almost immediately . ’
24 It should have started at Brands Hatch , but Jackie crashed it and had to race again in the 003 .
25 In Wallshire Ltd v Aarons [ 1989 ] 1 EGLR 147 , it was argued that a surveyor conducting a rent review as an expert should have looked at more evidence of comparable lettings .
26 Erm even if we 're wrong in that then they should have looked at alternative positions within the company which did n't require you to drive erm that 's the basic advice at the moment .
27 But I really should have looked at me plants .
28 I should have looked at me plants today .
29 That 'll go , 'cos you should have looked at them in between .
30 He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things .
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