Example sentences of "should have [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He missed a few chances ; reckoned he should have scored a hat-trick . |
| 2 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 3 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 4 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 5 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 6 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 7 | I should have made a list . |
| 8 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 9 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 10 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 11 | That such a natural loyalist should have met a traitor 's end reflects all Edward II 's failings as a political manager . |
| 12 | You should have worn a coat over that dress — the night 's not warm enough for an outfit like that . ’ |
| 13 | I SHOULD have worn a hat . |
| 14 | We 're concerned that the that the Local Authorities of this land , including should have received a demand of twelve a twelve percent minimum for A P T and C , and a minimum wage of nine thousand three hundred and thirty , a level much higher than the Labour Party 's own national minimum wage , and indeed higher than the T U C's definition . |
| 15 | Businesses identified by Customs as needing to complete SSDs should have received a copy of the Intrastat Classification Nomenclature , which provides classification codes for goods to be recorded on the SSDs . |
| 16 | You should have received a copy of this , but in case it has been mislaid , another is attached . |
| 17 | Should have received a letter that is lost ; or |
| 18 | playing with it and stuff like , I think I should have gone a while ago , actually , |
| 19 | He should have raced a lot more , beaten a lot more people ; he was certainly capable of it . |
| 20 | This is not to deny that there may be good reasons why members of religious minorities should have sought a career in science and why they excelled in particular areas . |
| 21 | I think she should have played a Tour Event before an exhibition event , but then again it would n't be the first time she has n't turned up for a Tour Event would it ? |
| 22 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 23 | Southampton should have registered a club record seventh successive League win but failed to turn their general superiority into goals . |
| 24 | In addition , at least a third of the staff should have obtained a food handlers certificate . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 26 | The document should have provoked a number of doubts in your mind . |
| 27 | ‘ I should have sent a telegram . |
| 28 | It should have sent a search program down the cable first . |
| 29 | Anyone over the age of 50 , and in some fields over the age of 45 ( younger for women ) , should have given a lot of thought to answering an interviewer 's question about age . |
| 30 | If the origin of life were a probable event by ordinary human standards , then a substantial number of planets within radio range should have developed a radio technology long enough ago ( bearing in mind that radio waves travel at 186,000 miles per second ) for us to have picked up at least one transmission during the decades that we have been equipped to do so . |