Example sentences of "he should have been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , of course , he told himself he should have been able to predict what would happen . |
| 2 | Her second was a slight feeling of surprise that , if he was ‘ out on a jaunt ’ , he should have been able to order flowers from the Rose Bowl . |
| 3 | He should have been able to see it sooner , see it instantly . |
| 4 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 5 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 6 | Dr. Goldsmith 's comment was that if the man was physically fit to break out of his cell , he should have been fit to do the lighter task of breaking stones . |