Example sentences of "[pers pn] should have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm sorry you ca n't come with me to the village feast ; I should have been delighted to take you — but then the geese might come to harm . |
| 2 | A pity : I should have been delighted if the two writers , Johnson and Thomson , could achieve a time-machine meeting over the vandalising of Elgin Cathedral . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't have any argument with the players who have received wild-card entries but I do feel I should have been one of them . |
| 5 | You think I should have been living life to the full , then , and not mourning your brother ? ’ |
| 6 | " I should have been honest with that child this morning . " |
| 7 | I should have been pleased , I should have been flattered , and indeed I was . |
| 8 | I suppose I should have been suspicious then , realised something was n't right . ’ |
| 9 | She had a huge holdall with her — I should have been suspicious , but I was n't , I was too wrapped up in my own problems . |
| 10 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 11 | Were we so I should have been happy to kill you for speaking so of my daughter . |
| 12 | If Pine v. Collacott itself had originally been under challenge in your Lordships ' House on the ground that in an obligatory section 7(4) case the simple requirement that the driver provide a specimen of blood without reference to the possible alternative of urine was insufficient , I should have been inclined to reject that challenge . |
| 13 | ‘ I know I should have been stronger , Lachlan . |
| 14 | I should have been able to say , Fuck you , I 'll go my own way : as you did , as Sergei did . |
| 15 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |
| 16 | I always felt I should have been able to protect my mother better but I could n't . |
| 17 | I should have been able to give him something to hope for , " he thought with a sigh , as he descended the half dozen stairs and went to kneel beside Miriam on the stone flags . |
| 18 | Although I remember him stepping out of them and the sight of his white pants , I felt it was not seemly to observe too closely : otherwise I should have been able to verify the assertion that his underclothes were American but the rest very English . |
| 19 | There is something very impressive of state and royalty in the march of these sixty or more elephants ; and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference , I should have been apt to be carried away by such flights of imagination as inspire most Indian poets . |
| 20 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps you should have been present to hear him speak . |
| 22 | ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife . |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | If you can answer all those questions , with a fair degree of confidence , about your product , you should have been able to decide what your brand 's strengths and weaknesses in the marketplace are . |
| 25 | Preferably , you should have been able to read the text over before the lecture . |
| 26 | No doubt she should have been alarmed at this thought but she remained excited by it . |
| 27 | She should have been grateful . |
| 28 | She should have been ecstatic . |
| 29 | She should have been ravenous , but her appetite had faded . |
| 30 | The scales had fallen from her eyes and she saw all too clearly what perhaps she should have been aware of earlier . |