Example sentences of "should have [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting . |
2 | Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net . |
3 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
4 | It follows that , apart from the question of the impact of Community law , such is the discretion which the courts should have exercised in the present case . |
5 | If that is the case , the percentage of abnormalities should have increased in the reduced number who were referred . |
6 | And what of the runners and riders ; all hard boiled eggs painted in the colours of the jockeys which rode , or rather , should have ridden in the National . |
7 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
8 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
9 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
10 | In respect of in public services , it was a minefield for a long time and perhaps we did not react as we should have done in the early eighties . |
11 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
12 | There were also other reasons why resentment of Athens should have intensified in the late 450s : for instance , this was the period of the first cleruchies ( settlements of Athenians on allied territory abroad ) . |