Example sentences of "should have [verb] [prep] [art] [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 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | So , in theory , all should have kept in the same condition as when first stored . |
6 | I should have referred to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , West ( Mr. Douglas ) , who comes from Govan . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I said , if you 'd have said what you should have said at the bloody tribunal . |
9 | I think we should have said at the first the very first lesson , they just ploughed straight into did n't they ? |
10 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
11 | I should have gone to the French police at the time , but I did n't , and now the evidence has gone . |
12 | I said well I said that was the twenty first of it should have gone on the eleventh see but it did n't it go twenty first . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | If at some stage we entered into a single currency , we should have to deal with a different matter . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | I should have complained about the first case , but I was inexperienced then . |
17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
18 | If that is the case , the percentage of abnormalities should have increased in the reduced number who were referred . |
19 | The other was the offspring of doting , bourgeois parents , who should have given off the opposite kind of vibrations . |
20 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
21 | The four key criteria on economic convergence were ( i ) that inflation should be no more than 1.5 per cent above the average of the three best-performing member countries ; ( ii ) that the government deficit should not exceed 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and the public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) that the currency should have remained within the 2.25 per cent fluctuation margins in the European Monetary System for at least two years ; and ( iv ) that interest rates should not be more than 2 percentage points above the three best-performing states over the previous 12 months . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I think I should have stayed at the old school where they had confidence in me . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | It may seem a depressing conclusion to Anselm 's struggle for the primacy that it should have ended in a futile resort to forgery . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |