Example sentences of "[prep] now [pers pn] should have " in BNC.

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1 I am now looking forward to coming home , and am thinking that a fortnight from now I should have arrived in Hong Kong .
2 By now you should have a clearer picture of your current size and shape .
3 By now you should have discovered whether you are predominantly left or right-brained , thought about developing your creativity and learned about the influences on your mind and how to quieten it .
4 By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness .
5 By now you should have an idea of the talk tactics that you and others use to play status .
6 By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle .
7 By now you should have a fairly good idea of the possible use of a book .
8 It was his misfortune to envisage every such encounter as a matter of life and death , though by now he should have been used to anticlimax , and to the survival and tenacity of both parties to fight another day .
9 I thought by now I should be at home , I thought by now I should have secured peace , or died honourably in the attempt .
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