Example sentences of "should have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've been here yesterday fore . |
| 2 | Should 've been here yesterday forenoon ! , |
| 3 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 4 | She played down her abilities , fluffed tasks that should have been childishly simple . |
| 5 | But that neither scene nor season favoured fear , I should have been superstitiously afraid . |
| 6 | When she should have been indignantly pulling away somehow she was melting into his arms , her lips parting beneath the increasing ardour of his . |
| 7 | Regardless of nerves ( which should have been largely removed through practice examinations ) , resolve to follow a fixed routine during the examination . |
| 8 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 9 | The figures were high for a county in which comital lordship had not been noticeably demanding ; the count 's fortifications should have been adequately defended . |
| 10 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 11 | It should have been just one of those stories one dines out on afterwards , only the wretched woman thought I was being deliberately insulting and complained to the Management . |
| 12 | It should have been downhill all the way for retired Shetland Pony Selwyn , instead it turned out to be downbeat . |
| 13 | The trunk of the lights should have been marginally taller , the spread of their branches carrying the individual bulbs broader . |
| 14 | The following paragraph appeared on the last page of a recently published official report : perhaps it should have been nearer the front ! |
| 15 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 16 | ‘ But she was very brave and amazed the doctors by doing things when they thought she should have been dead long ago . ’ |
| 17 | An understanding of this should have been well and truly introduced into the minds of children by the time they are old enough to play such games as those which simulate parental behaviour . |
| 18 | This target should have been well within the reach of Horden , seeking their first win . |
| 19 | It was twenty to eleven when you said goodbye to Hatton and Pertwee and even walking none too fast you should have been indoors at home by eleven . |
| 20 | All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party . |
| 21 | sa , so what are you saying , that the council should have been straight round to board it up ? |
| 22 | This should have been plainly ridiculous to the Elizabethan audience . |
| 23 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 24 | Without it I should have been hopelessly lost . |
| 25 | The thing is should have been nearly seventy five hundred . |
| 26 | Given that the decision has now been taken by Parliament to extend the law to cover recordings , broadcasts and cable programmes , it may be wondered whether the exemption for these should have been automatically carried over into the new law . |
| 27 | You should have been above it . |
| 28 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 29 | In any case , it seems inevitable that the development of the mechanical clock should have been primarily due to the Church for , although the transmission of power by rope and pulley had long been known to craftsmen , the mathematics of gear-trains ( particularly astronomical trains ) was known only to the highly educated , and their education was provided only by the Church . |
| 30 | However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left . |