Example sentences of "he should have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was the town naughty boy all right , and it was incongruous that he should have been named Wesley . |
| 2 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 3 | He should have been terminated . |
| 4 | Mrs Smith 's family say he 'd written a letter threatening her and he should have been detained . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's true , ’ Anne agreed , ‘ but I think he should have been made to suffer for the way others suffered through him . |
| 6 | Musician to the end , he died through insisting on conducting a new revival of Castor et Pollux when he should have been nursing an illness . |
| 7 | You think it was wrong that he should have been prosecuted and the person who damaged his car should not ? |
| 8 | He should have been done for murder . |
| 9 | Perhaps he should have been expecting her question . |
| 10 | The fishing , the slides of Tenerife were all irrelevant ; he should have been dealing with Steen . |
| 11 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 12 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 13 | That was also rough play and he should have been punished sternly . |
| 14 | ‘ I think he should have been punished more . |
| 15 | She did so with such innocent flirtation he should have been discomforted , but he met the look with his usual amusement . |
| 16 | He did not allow the revolution of 1917 to interfere with his contacts with Russian colleagues and it was appropriate that he should have been asked to supply the inscription for the sword presented by George VI to the people of Stalingrad . |
| 17 | It was argued that he should have been sentenced to a term of detention in a young offender institution , and that he did not qualify for a custodial sentence for that purpose under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) . |
| 18 | Max Jacob believed he should have been given full credit for persuading Modi to return to painting . |
| 19 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 20 | That 's how long he got but , looking at the players he brought through , perhaps he should have been given longer . |
| 21 | In the terms of the binaries invoked , and reinstalled rightway-around , he should have been perceived as only shallow , specious , ineffectual . |
| 22 | What had gone awry , that he should have been led to this pass , and even now he felt himself following , perforce , the twists of his fortune , headlong as a fall , when he should have been steering his own course and bearing them strongly with him ? |
| 23 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 24 | He should o he should a , he should have been sent off . |
| 25 | By the time he should have been born , a month later , he was almost 9lbs ! |
| 26 | In the absence of truly definitive knowledge about Jesus , it seems to us more likely , more probable , more in accord with our experience of humanity , that a man should have been married and tried to regain his rightful throne than that he should have been born of a virgin , walked on water and risen from his grave . |
| 27 | Derek felt from an early age that he should have been born a woman . |
| 28 | And that , too , amazed her , that he should have been thinking so clearly , calculating how long it would take . |
| 29 | Even before he was consecrated , and perhaps as soon as he was elected , at a moment when , by ordinary rules of prudence , he should have been thinking of equipping himself with all the forms of expert knowledge required by his new position , he chose one of the group of English monks to be his closest and most constant companion . |
| 30 | The 50-year-old , winner of 61 tournaments worldwide , said that his interpretation of the rules was that he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect score card . |