Example sentences of "should [verb] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've painted the picture |
| 2 | Anyway talking of nonsense you should 've seen the bill I was sent for my council tax it was quite pricey . |
| 3 | I shot the sheriff but I should 've shot the deputy |
| 4 | ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’ |
| 5 | Having been taught that , at a time when priests were not disagreed with , it is small wonder that John Kennedy should have involved himself , and thousands after him , in an anti-Communist crusade in Vietnam ; that Joseph McCarthy should have conducted his anti-Communist witch-hunts ; or that Casey should have made the fight against Communism his life 's work , even asking that money should be given after his death not for flowers , but for the contras . |
| 6 | I should have made the connection sooner , given that the company was called Airborne Plc , but nobody 's perfect . |
| 7 | The majority communists forced a vote through the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet on Nov. 14 to strip Khmara of his parliamentary immunity from prosecution , despite the fact that the lack of a quorum should have made the vote invalid . |
| 8 | The date by which all supplies should have met the Directive 's standard was July 1985 , but little was done in the UK as the government hoped to negotiate a laxer standard . |
| 9 | It was a coincidence that , once again , Branson should have met the object of his romantic attentions at the Manor , early in 1976 . |
| 10 | The jury has been told that locking pins which should have secured the gantry had failed . |
| 11 | Each qualitative foregrounding implicitly begs a question : what should have led the author to express himself in this exceptional way ? |
| 12 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 13 | He should have kept the studio in time for some |
| 14 | He should have kept the letter . |
| 15 | You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it . |
| 16 | ‘ You should have ambushed the beast when you had the chance , ’ croaked Ferd . |
| 17 | Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) found evidence of the extinction effect in only two of their six experiments and were able to offer no very convincing account of why these two studies ( which used a somewhat different test procedure from that used in the others ) should have generated the result they did . |
| 18 | When she later challenged the EP she was told she should have contacted the Education Welfare Officer ( EWO ) designated by the LEA as being the ‘ named person ’ . |
| 19 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 20 | Even before Bruce 's penalty miss however , Mark Hughes should have saved the game for Manchester when heading a great chance wide in the 67th minute from another Giggs cross . |
| 21 | He concluded , however , that it was not a necessary precondition of a restitutionary order under section 6(2) or of a remedial order under section 61(1) that the person against whom the order was made , whether the contravener or the person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in the contravention , should have received the money or property ordered to be restored to the investor . |
| 22 | By law , Paul should have received the directorship of the theatre and the rest of Dinah 's inheritance ; but as things stood , it was impossible , and she continued to administer the estate . |
| 23 | By now , you should have reached the stage when your potential as a successful recording artist is evident . |
| 24 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 25 | Although surprisingly few of our colleagues have died ‘ in the field ’ , it is nonetheless fitting that field-work should have assumed the character of a tribal ordeal or initiation rite the performance of which , under appropriate conditions , is virtually indispensable if one is to gain professional status . |
| 26 | After Desert Storm , many thought that the attackers should have shouldered the responsibility of occupying Iraq , restoring democracy and temporarily administering the country under some UN mandate . |
| 27 | I should have turned the tape recorder off for that should n't I ! |
| 28 | Well you should have turned the heating on . |
| 29 | Whenever he was out he set himself the task ‘ to study how and why until I discovered how I should have played the ball that beat me ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps they should have followed the advice of the 107-year old club 's motto ‘ audaces fortuna juvat ’ — fortune favours the brave . |