Example sentences of "you should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ye should have poured a whole bottle of lysol down it before me . ’ |
| 2 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 3 | You should have heard her when she got that craze for Vegetarianism and Bernard Shaw . |
| 4 | So if you 're in an area where there are other apple trees , you should have no problem . |
| 5 | Come next spring , you should have lots of new young plants — and all for free ! |
| 6 | Trim them back , dead-head regularly and bring in before the first frosts and you should have flowers for months to come |
| 7 | Once clear of the ground , most gliders are very similar to each other and you should have no problems . |
| 8 | The national screening programme will enable all women between the ages of 20 and 64 to be tested at least every five years you should have received your invitation for screening by 1993 . |
| 9 | ‘ Robert ’ — he turned on his factor — ‘ you should have made it plain — ‘ Nothing is plain out there , I tell you . |
| 10 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You should have — Well , he is gone now … |
| 12 | ‘ You should have had an early night , ’ she commented . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have said earlier , ’ he complained . |
| 14 | You should have a system for monitoring people 's work performance . |
| 15 | You should have a clear policy on confidentiality , on job security , on sickness benefits , on time off for treatment and on pension rights . |
| 16 | You may choose not to report this , but you should have the honesty to report Labour 's policy accurately . |
| 17 | You should have been more kind to your loyal readers . |
| 18 | If you really wanted to learn something you should have started at the top . |
| 19 | You should have heard some of the stories that went round when you first came to Easton … |
| 20 | We have these anatomical dolls , but anyway , you should have seen what that [ name of 4-year-old girl ] went through . |
| 21 | By now , you should have reached the stage when your potential as a successful recording artist is evident . |
| 22 | Eventually , you should have collected the opinion of everyone on your ‘ hit list ’ and , if no one has shown any interest in your music , you need to consider their reactions very carefully . |
| 23 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 24 | You should have taken it years ago . |
| 25 | By cutting down the proportion of fat in your diet you can increase the other constituents ( protein and carbohydrate ) , and because of this , you should have no hunger pangs . |
| 26 | ‘ Strange then that you should have discussed this Mr McCloy with your friends in the Dragon on Friday . |
| 27 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 28 | ‘ What I mean is you should have a reasonably clean bill of health by then , ’ Doctor Staples said . |
| 29 | If you follow the principles laid down at the beginning of this feature then you should have no problem . |
| 30 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |