Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 2 | You should have been allowed to congratulate her first . |
| 3 | ‘ When we had ascended a little more than half-way , I was much afraid we should have been doomed to return , on account of the masses of rock , over which we had to climb , beginning to increase in size ; we knew , however , that a descent would have been attended with infinite danger , and being urged on partly by eagerness in our pursuit , but more from a desire to be at the top , we determined to brave every difficulty . |
| 4 | Long after Sarella felt they should have been slowing to cross the drawbridge into the courtyard of Castell Rocamar , they went on , the engine purring gently as they continued into the heart of the mountains . |
| 5 | For it was the procedures and practices that have been at the very core of racing tradition for generations that were on trial here , and there was little realistic chance that they should have been found wanting . |
| 6 | Order 29 , r 1(3) provides that if the order was injunctive , it should have been served having borne thereon a " penal notice " — see below . |
| 7 | In fact , Theda thought it a beautiful old building , and felt it to be a pity that it should have been allowed to go to rack . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's true , ’ Anne agreed , ‘ but I think he should have been made to suffer for the way others suffered through him . |
| 9 | He did not allow the revolution of 1917 to interfere with his contacts with Russian colleagues and it was appropriate that he should have been asked to supply the inscription for the sword presented by George VI to the people of Stalingrad . |
| 10 | According to Mr Paton 's plan he should have been left to die . |
| 11 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 12 | It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day . |
| 13 | In 1829 a convicted prisoner petitioned that he should have been allowed to free himself from a charge of robbery by rendering compensation . |