Example sentences of "should [verb] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must be absolutely and totally out of your tiny mind ! she told herself fiercely , ashamed that , despite the apparent sophistication of her twenty-five years , she should have succumbed so quickly to his dark , fatal attraction . |
| 2 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 3 | It had been years since she had cried like that , and that she should have done so now in front of Luke surprised her even more . |
| 4 | Many commentators argued that it should have done so long ago . |
| 5 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 6 | Despite her anxiety she registered both the relief that Phoebe should have acted so promptly and a tiny flicker of jealousy , which she quickly quashed . |
| 7 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 8 | he should have known or whoever organized the fair should have known so really it does n't work unless you make one person responsible for that job . |
| 9 | She had never fully understood why her life should have changed so suddenly and drastically , though she knew by rote the duties and privileges of married ladies , and did her best to play her part decorously . |
| 10 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 11 | That Howe 's resignation should have occurred so opportunely for Heseltine — on the very eve of the one time of year that the party rules permit a leadership challenge — was extremely important . |