Example sentences of "should [not/n't] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that it should be no more than eight weeks old , and should not have eaten grass . |
| 2 | There was no reason why God should not have reserved opportunities for fresh discoveries to be enjoyed by a later generation . |
| 3 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |
| 4 | He said that the FIA tribunal had no right to rule on the case until a hearing in Portugal and should not have heard representation from Mansell and Ferrari at a hearing in Paris last Thursday . |
| 5 | The FIA tribunal postponed any decision , but Balestre said it had no right to rule on the case until after the Portuguese hearing and should not have heard representation . |
| 6 | ‘ We should not have elected Artai , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It struck her as peculiar that Mr Browning should not have given Mr Surtees Cook his Rome address for this telegram could not be relayed south in under another twenty-four hours and perhaps more . |
| 8 | He found that although in theory , workovers should not have caused changes to the wells ' productivity , productivity had been reduced — by up to 40 per cent in some cases . |
| 9 | Such analysis suggests the company was never viable from the start and the buy-out should not have taken place . |
| 10 | Salutations 0 Mighty Apollo ! glad your music tour went down well , playing the fiddle standing on your head while drinking a glass of water is very clever , none but a Nero could do it , but you really should not have set fire to the auditorium as an encore . |
| 11 | She should not have married Sebastian . |
| 12 | They certainly should not have allowed badger to lick his ear . |
| 13 | But independence is indivisible , so Ceauşescu thought , he should not have let Romania become dependent on Western credit any more than he had let it fall under Soviet political control . |
| 14 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 15 | The German government should not have financed unification by swelling its budget deficit , thereby provoking the interest-rate hikes which others found unbearable . |
| 16 | Erm now the th H S C is saying that erm it should n't have gone skin to skin and they 've stopped skin to skin in other headings . |
| 17 | I should n't have rushed things . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps she should n't have dismissed Dr Russell 's offer of private nursing work so quickly . |
| 19 | In the first place , they should n't have cast Dame Edith , who played the lady in the house where the whole thing takes place . |
| 20 | Should n't have mentioned grandma ! |
| 21 | He should n't have stolen Crevecoeur , Roirbak ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I should n't have pulled strings — other people would have pulled them for me ! |
| 23 | ‘ I should n't have set foot near this rotten mess , ’ he wrote in the diary . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps you should n't have taken part . ’ |
| 25 | The big man was n't given to introspection and he certainly was n't known for his sensitivity but even he was aware that the conversation had somehow been wrong , that it should n't have taken place , not with Martin . |
| 26 | I probably should n't have left New Orleans as I did . |
| 27 | Well he should n't have left tiles outside somebody could have taken those ! |
| 28 | There was no reason in terms of a a , a military position why you should n't have introduced land reform in , in the way that going through and you are moving into an area where as we 've seen landlordism was at its |