Example sentences of "[pron] should have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not totally unacceptable that when only 13 questions were answered on Welsh matters , four of them should have been asked by Hon. Members with English constituencies and that most of the questions were answered by a Member representing an English constituency ? |
| 2 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |
| 3 | Surely erm they were n't all connected with the M forty , and I expect possibly others whom should have been invited were overlooked . |
| 4 | No luxury cruise around the Mediterranean could have been half as rewarding ; I should have been fed up at sea and embarrassed ashore , always conscious of the intrusion of our party as we were shown the sights . |
| 5 | At half past three Kaptan and I should have been reading from one of the textbooks but , in fact , I was lying in the Colonel 's hammock while Kaptan , with his inexhaustible energy , was trying to catch frogs . |
| 6 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 7 | I should have been pleased , I should have been flattered , and indeed I was . |
| 8 | ‘ I should have been warned , I suppose , ’ Sarah said . |
| 9 | But for your lordship 's visit I should have been gone before this . ’ |
| 10 | He says : ‘ I decided to devise a method of calculating what interest I should have been charged and the bank was miles out . ’ |
| 11 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 12 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 13 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 14 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 16 | In fiction , he thought , Alice and I should have been tormented by our joint knowledge , distrustful , guilt-ridden , unable to live apart yet miserable together . |
| 17 | In fact , if the treatment really worked I should have been Elastoplasted all over . |
| 18 | If the treatment really worked I should have been elastoplasted all over . |
| 19 | ‘ I think I should have been consulted . |
| 20 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 21 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 22 | Had I been a few feet nearer the bomb I should have been blown to pieces — had I been a few feet further away I should have been cut to pieces by shrapnel . |
| 23 | David says : ‘ I felt I should have been dressed there as a man . |
| 24 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 25 | ‘ A fan behind the dug-out snarled at me and said I should have been killed along with my mate Brian Tiler and three others in a car smash , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 27 | I should have been prepared for the lack of change on this front . |
| 28 | When we left the meeting , I should have been punching the air with joy . |
| 29 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 30 | I also hoped she had n't told him about Frankie 's and my rudeness although why I should have been bothered about him I ca n't think . |