Example sentences of "[adv] as it should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual 'flu stiffness and aching in the muscles did n't go away as it should have done , so Father sent for Dr Allott , our family physician , a patient , gentle old man who always arrived in an Essex sedan and — more important to us — always carried a pocketful of toffees to give away to children . |
| 2 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 3 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My mind has n't always been focused on this operation as fully as it should have been . ’ |
| 6 | On this night though , David , if you can believe it , everything was not quite as it should have been , including the opposition . |