Example sentences of "should have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 3 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 4 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 5 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 6 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 7 | Thus , when in 1010 the English should have been engaging the enemy , ferde seo fyrde ham — the army went home . |
| 8 | ‘ I should have been marrying a prince . ’ |
| 9 | The charge is that he allowed domestic inflation to get out of control and messed around with the exchange rate when he should have been applying the monetarist remedy . |
| 10 | ‘ And this is Ron , viola , but he really should have been playing the cornet , he spends more time on it . ’ |