Example sentences of "should have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should have shut the stable door so the damn horse do n't bolt . ’ |
| 2 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 3 | No bu I 'm sorry , the other thing I 'm sorry I should have said the other thing I 'm going on is when things were last done , |
| 4 | Probably should have gone the other way into town but |
| 5 | It is in accordance with such optimism that Euripides should have turned the suffering hero of earlier tragedy into a dialectician and the transcendental justice of Aeschylus into the " poetic justice " dispensed by the deus ex machina who appears at the end of so many of his plays . |
| 6 | It should have determined the relative usefulness of the text , suggested the best way of tackling it and provided you with an impression of the scholarly stature and historiographical viewpoint of the book . |
| 7 | I should have to examine the whole state of the law as to , and the history of the subject of , consideration , which , I need hardly say , I do not propose to do . |
| 8 | " You should have joined the diplomatic service ! |
| 9 | Earlier , Alex Aitken , of the Conservative Collegiate Forum , was loudly applauded when he said it was ‘ intolerable ’ that taxpayers should have to fund the left-wing propaganda of the NUS . |
| 10 | Significantly , the package features a novel ‘ tutorial ’ : when it is completed , the user should have computerised the financial side of the business , and hopefully , learned to deal with all ‘ financial ’ events that happen in business from opening balances , through stopped or bounced cheques to journals . |
| 11 | I should have stayed the whole night in your bed , with you in my arms . |
| 12 | They should have penetrated his disguise and they should have alerted the Royal guards and the Fiana and every sorcerer in the Palace so that he could be driven out . |
| 13 | I should have flung the damned thing out of his open door so that it would bounce down the mountainside up which the road was climbing . |
| 14 | 4. ( a ) On MacDonald 's character you should have indicated the telling phrase " characteristic self-pity " and indicated the implications of the penultimate paragraph . |
| 15 | Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that . |
| 16 | The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts . |
| 17 | You should have discovered the following facts . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , I sprained my wrist , ’ Preston admitted , ‘ but you should have seen the other bloke . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You should have seen the smug self satisfaction on the faces of those bitches as they lined up to kiss me , ’ she rasped . |
| 20 | You should have seen the old pageants . |
| 21 | Somebody should have seen the inevitable scramble coming , but no one did . |
| 22 | While America goes crazy over its new President elect , CARTER USM are busy making themselves the next most popular thing with the inhabitants of that wacky continent and really should have done the decent thing and put themselves up for election . |
| 23 | I should have done the Financial Times . |
| 24 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 25 | I love the fresh smell in the air when everything seems to be coming to life again and I felt a natural surge of joy , as if in a few weeks ' time John would be coming home from his first trip away just as he should have done the previous April . |
| 26 | However , I should have done the proper cockpit checks which I certainly did ever after . |
| 27 | She really should have treated the whole tank for white spot , not isolated her fish ( see this month 's article on Koi diseases ) , and was lucky no to get a recurrence . |
| 28 | I should have started the annual parish meeting at seven and followed by |
| 29 | Now I should have to study the English language in earnest , keeping one chapter ahead of the students each week . |
| 30 | He should have left the bloody things off because they 're gon na have to take them off if they have their carpets down and might have to have something planed off them or something might n't they ? |