Example sentences of "[pron] should have be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I catch up with what I should have been doing all day . |
| 2 | When I lived right on the job it used to drive my wife round the bend — I 'd be at home on a weekend , perhaps in the garden , and I 'd think about something in the greenhouse across the road so I 'd go over there and disappear for an hour whereas perhaps I should have been giving more time to my family . |
| 3 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 4 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 5 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 6 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |