Example sentences of "should [verb] [vb pp] 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 ) .
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