Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were times , subsequently , when I felt I should have hired a second vet to check the location and fitting of my own cranium . |
| 32 | ‘ Things have n't been going well since my England call-up , ’ said Ferdinand , who thought he should have won a late penalty after colliding with Chris Woods . |
| 33 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 34 | There I should have welcomed a faster tempo both for the waltz of the first half , and for the galop of the second , both of them evoking the atmosphere of the fairground as a tenth birthday tribute to the Fairfield Hall in Croydon . |
| 35 | It is no surprise that parliament should have approved a conservative plan . |
| 36 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 37 | But to be really effective the mailing should have had a good deal more planning than this . |
| 38 | We should have had a general election last Thursday , rather than three by-elections . |
| 39 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 40 | You should have had a tough education . |
| 41 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 42 | However , it did not resolve the crucial question : Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang , a beginning of time ? |
| 43 | Encamped for long spells in the Lansdowne territory Ballymena should have had a comfortable interval lead but McAleese uncharacteristically missed a penalty at either end of the first half . |
| 44 | Anyone who considers what has happened with regard to the sugar and milk quotas or to anything else about which we felt that we should have had a different package but could not achieve it will be aware of how dangerous it is to allow the negotiations to proceed quickly when a longer discussion might result in a better solution . |
| 45 | My worry about the half is that we should have had a few goals in , rather than just the one . |
| 46 | At the very least , he should have had a local policeman with him . |
| 47 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 48 | ‘ Should have picked a quieter place to meet , ’ he chuckles . |
| 49 | You should have got a bigger size in n it Dawn ? |
| 50 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 51 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 52 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 53 | Days before the trading figures were due , when it should have recommended a long position , the firm was likely to recommend going short . |
| 54 | In that particular case , the Community should have negotiated a common fisheries policy by the end of 1978 , by virtue of the 1972 Act of Accession . |
| 55 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 56 | The legislative programme should have included a criminal justice Bill to prohibit conviction on confession evidence alone , to bring some consistency into a chaotic sentencing policy and to give statutory rights to the victims of crime . |
| 57 | I should have thought a little evidence of human frailty would merely enhance your reputation — and the association would do mine a power of good ! ’ |
| 58 | Not many other people take it , either , but we could all read in our own newspapers that it was supporting Labour , and I should have thought a normal reaction among honest Britons , who have grown to mistrust businessmen in the age of takeovers , would be to do the opposite . |
| 59 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 60 | ‘ I should have thought a few minutes . |