Example sentences of "i should have [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there . |
| 2 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 3 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 4 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 5 | Though I should have discovered a tolerable way , ’ she said , with force and finality . |
| 6 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 7 | I was not told , when we left , that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen . |
| 8 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 9 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |
| 11 | There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium . |
| 12 | But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone . |
| 13 | I should have to know a great deal more about you . |