Example sentences of "[pers pn] should have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't think you 've heard the last of this matter , ’ he said through his teeth , ‘ you wo n't get away with it , taking from me my home and my birthright , I should have been the eldest son , I am more worthy of the position . |
| 2 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 3 | ‘ You should have been a big game hunter , Maggie . ’ |
| 4 | She should have been the original ‘ It ’ girl , Clara Bow , but the staff , not for the last time , got it wrong , and put the more vampish Theda Bara on the cover instead . |
| 5 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
| 6 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 7 | It was a beautiful day with small cumulus clouds and about thirty miles visibility , and it should have been a great experience , but unfortunately I felt deadly sick all the way and could hardly bear to look out . |
| 8 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 9 | it should have been a hundred or something . |
| 10 | Given his abilities and his natural desire to go into space , it should have been a logical extension of his career to graduate from the Air Force into the Space Programme . |
| 11 | It should have been a simple matter to check , but the dosimeters for measuring radioactivity were locked in a safe and the panel in the control room was dead . |
| 12 | However , whereas it should have been a joyous occasion , it was not . |
| 13 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 14 | Ideally , it should have been a dense foggy night with the sound of distant police whistles piercing the gloom . |
| 15 | I would have thought it should have been a national effort . |
| 16 | Changez 's brother sent him money , too , which was unusual , because it should have been the other way round as Changez made his way in the affluent West , but I was sure celebrations in India at Changez 's departure were still taking place . |
| 17 | I think it should have been the other way round because I was black and blue from head to toe . |
| 18 | No , whoops , I might have put one on top of the other when it should have been the other way round , so always have this check , er does the answer look , I mean , no , you ca n't always tell , but sometimes you can , sometimes you can think well those two are about the same price per gram , are n't they ? |
| 19 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 20 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 22 | He should have been the principal suspect . ’ |
| 23 | He should have been the last person to be killed . |