Example sentences of "should have [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 2 | The failure of Britain 's membership of the European Monetary System should have led to a complete rethink of the Maastricht agreement to move to a single currency . |
| 3 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
| 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 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
| 6 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 7 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
| 8 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 9 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
| 10 | They claim the City has less than half the resources it should have to deal with the growing number of such homes , H M O's for short . |
| 11 | ‘ But somehow , they became rooted in the reserves , whereas we felt they should have zoomed into the premier league and joined the elite of beat . ’ |
| 12 | If that is the case , the percentage of abnormalities should have increased in the reduced number who were referred . |
| 13 | The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations . |
| 14 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 15 | Stanley knife the UK Intuition remix ( actual A-side ) as it 's a f—ing disgrace , should have stayed with the original MFS mixes , so go search out the import . |
| 16 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
| 17 | It was fitting , in the 50th anniversary year of the Battle of Britain , that the Association should have engaged in a full range of activities aimed at meeting its responsibilities towards former members of the Royal Air Force , both men and women . |
| 18 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 19 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A Labour government would start to do what the Tories should have done in the oil-rich years . |
| 24 | IT IS of no great consequence to the rest of the world that a small island off the end of the Indian subcontinent should have sunk over the past couple of decades into a condition of violence so endemic that the murder of the president and a leading opposition politician within eight days can be regarded by the locals with something like equanimity ( see page 71 ) . |
| 25 | My Lords , section 87 does not stipulate that the successor must have resided at a particular house for 12 months but only that he should have resided with the deceased tenant for that period . |
| 26 | We had learned this at the very first lesson of the term — something most of the boys should have remembered from the previous year — when Mr Gillis had belted fourteen of us for setting off towards the door when the bell rang rather than waiting for his instruction . |
| 27 | He should have returned to the open prison on the tenth of August . |
| 28 | He should have continued with the little Hoflin girl . |
| 29 | It should have come as a complete surprise , but the man swayed , taking Ross 's fist on his shoulder . |
| 30 | So it should have come as no real surprise to me to discover that the ’ gear ’ Penny so briefly dismissed included a 17 foot aluminium boat , 24hp outboard , a trailer ( obviously ) , a seine net and a lot of angling equipment . |