Example sentences of "[conj] you should have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 2 | Is that where you should have stopped ? |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’ |
| 4 | You 've got the today or you should have got them . |
| 5 | Although you should have a clear idea of how you would expect and like candidates to reply to this and other questions do bear in mind that nervousness can have an effect on what people say . |
| 6 | ‘ Strange then that you should have discussed this Mr McCloy with your friends in the Dragon on Friday . |
| 7 | What a delightful reflection for you and your dear wife that you should have been instrumental in contributing to the loveliness of the celestial kingdom , and that your beloved infant should be an additional star in diadem of Jesus ! |
| 8 | You might feel below par , that ‘ washed-out ’ feeling ; your resistance to infection could well be affected ; you will not have the zest for life that you should have . |
| 9 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 10 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 11 | Whatever your circumstances , the point is that you should have enough money coming in in the Income column to meet the outgoings in the Expenditure column with , hopefully , a bit left over for rainy days and holidays . |
| 12 | A wind from a direction that makes netting impossible in one area may be ideal somewhere else and it is , therefore , important that you should have surveyed your terrain with great care so that you are well aware of this . |
| 13 | If there 's anything you feel that you should have mentioned , and did n't , perhaps you 'll let us know tomorrow . |
| 14 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 15 | We all just felt that you should have the chance of a different kind of life . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 17 | Add other things that you should have done or wanted to do . |
| 18 | The Institute will ask you to send a fee which they will refund if the arbitrator decides in your favour or decides that you should have your fee back . |
| 19 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 20 | If five members are to be elected in your constituency your natural expectation would be that you should have five votes . |
| 21 | The good news is that as none of your other fishes have shown any signs of disease it sounds as if it was something non-infectious , so that you should have nothing to worry about regarding their health . |
| 22 | ‘ That you should have lost your wife . |
| 23 | What he can not do , of course , is articulate clearly his true reasons of state , reasons which make perfect sense in an administration context and obey all the rules of realpolitik , including the rule that you should have God on your side . |
| 24 | It is n't fair , come to that , that you should have to support me . " |
| 25 | Who suggested that you that you should have a go ? |
| 26 | ‘ There 's something Dana has n't told you that you should have known days ago , Claudia . |
| 27 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 28 | That you should have been there all the while and me not know it all this time ! |
| 29 | ‘ Simply that you should have asked Belinda instead of just making assumptions . |
| 30 | Twelve such operations later , you have your year 's month headings entered , and only then realise that you should have started not at cell A1 ( the top left hand corner of any spreadsheet ) , but in a bit and down a bit — you have to put row headings in as well . |