Example sentences of "[pron] should have taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 2 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 3 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 5 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
| 6 | ‘ You should have taken the cover off before you filled it , ’ she went on , taking the bottle , almost snatching it , out of Rupert 's hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’ |
| 8 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 9 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 10 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 11 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 12 | I mean he , he should have taken the throne . |
| 13 | He should have taken the decision to allow women to be ordained instead of opening the issue to a damaging debate that has succeeded only in widening rifts within the Church . |
| 14 | He thought he should have taken the price off . |
| 15 | It was enough that he should have taken the trouble to visit her and offer his apologies . |