Example sentences of "[noun] should have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had not looked like a prostitute , besides which had that been the case Fedorov 's driver should have been taking a walk along the quay , or just sitting gazing tactfully ahead . |
| 2 | When the Lions should have been exerting control from a position of 31–3 ahead with 28 minutes left , it was Southland who did the scoring and the Lions ' only score in that final period was a drop goal from Tony Clement . |
| 3 | NETRHA officers felt vulnerable on the point that the priority groups should have been getting an increased share of the regional budget . |
| 4 | One frowning look at the table where a pint pot of tea and a plate of scones or buns should have been awaiting his arrival , sent Martha and Lydia scurrying frantically about until his needs had been met . |
| 5 | By this stage Labour should have been riding high . |
| 6 | ‘ What a lovely thing to do , ’ he remarked and , appalled at his patronising tone , told her that her ears should have been burning on Christmas Day . |
| 7 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 8 | Fergus should have been standing here , thought Taliesin , and there was a pain and an aching void at the knowledge , for this had been Fergus 's quest and his covenant . |
| 9 | Today Mrs Wendy Rennie should have been celebrating her eldest son 's nineteenth birthday . |
| 10 | The Arsenal boss should have been feeling pleased after his side salvaged a late point . |
| 11 | The thrush should have been singing , but Hazel could hear no thrush . |
| 12 | For this reason alone , there was no reason why individuals should have been pressing their case to be personally excluded from repatriation . |
| 13 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 14 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 15 | HMS Reading should have been coming in the other direction . |
| 16 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 17 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 18 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 19 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 20 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 21 | Parrots should have been swooping , tree to tree , in search of breakfast ; toucan , egret , cormorants , heron , trogons . |
| 22 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 23 | Well , by April 1982 , surely the Cabinet should have been thinking about it . |
| 24 | We do not buy live poultry from the local market and carry it home squawking and then wring its neck , nor do we insist that the fish we order in a restaurant should have been swimming about only moments before . |
| 25 | ‘ Prince Charles should have been running an organic farm , with special interests in the arts . |
| 26 | But I think that if it had been , the horses should have been showing distress by last night , which they were n't . |
| 27 | Instead of worrying about how to make the RUC acceptable to the minority , O'Neill should have been using the legitimate power of the state to crush an illegal insurrection . |
| 28 | Instead of considering only the recommendations in the sub-committee 's report and deciding on that , the counties should have been assessing E.W. 's articles and trying to find arguments to put against them . |