Example sentences of "should have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 and she says well , it was Doctor but Jean she says you 've been so tired you should 've went of bed when you felt tired because with sitting
2 I know you should 've stayed at home till the beginning of this week .
3 ‘ You should 've stayed with my dad , ’ said Camille .
4 They reckon the doctor should 've says to him He should n't have said that , full stop , you should never say that to an alcoholic .
5 Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git .
6 After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war .
7 After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war .
8 You should 've thought of that , ’ said the foreman .
9 ‘ I should 've thought of invoking that long since .
10 I mean , she 's told you about her three children but er I suppose she should 've thought of that , should n't she , before she signed on ?
11 I should 've talked to you about your mother long ago .
12 Oh I should 've mentioned about the maintenance erm , we wo n't do anything about this floor until the rest of the things are sorted out , I think this is the least of our worries .
13 We should have eaten at the pub .
14 Luton had the best of the chances … should have scored at least one … thankfully Swindon managed to escape with a point …
15 Mark Edwards for Bicester should have scored after good work by John Thorne and Barry Cooper , but he only half hit his shot and keeper Whittington saved .
16 Les Ferdinand should have scored in the 16th minute when he escaped Shaun Teale and side-stepped goalkeeper Nigel Spink but the Rangers striker allowed Steve Staunton to get back and make two retrieving tackles in front of a gaping net .
17 Sharp possibly should have scored in 1st half .
18 Highfield came back strongly and should have scored in front of the posts but lost possession their hooker was held up on the line , their only reward was a penalty from their captain Terry Dillon .
19 Lennox should have scored in the 75th minute when McLaughlin 's long-range strike was pushed onto the post by O'Shea , but with an open goal in front of him , Lennox sliced his shot into the side netting .
20 Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space .
21 It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas .
22 Treasury ideas are bound to be different , and should have to do with choice and with making markets work .
23 Joe Cunnane , I 'm sorry , but er Chairman , but I did actually miss probably the most important point I should have made about Tadcaster
24 Now that her ankle was better she should really go back and chase up on the calls Steve should have made in Palma so that it was all tied up when he got back but she did n't want to spoil it all with Fernando .
25 I have you pick up Mundi from the police station and deliver him to Heartbreak Hotel where he should have met with certain extinction .
26 ‘ With hindsight ’ , the HAS commented , ‘ it can be seen that the exercise of moving to community care should have begun with the provision of substitute facilities for longer term dependent patients ’ .
27 According to the timetable announced in September [ see p. 38425 ] the election process should have begun on Dec. 1 , with the final round of presidential elections on Jan. 22 .
28 The orders were indeed issued , and the attack should have begun at 4.30 a.m. on August 26 .
29 It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way , except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us .
30 London Stock Exchange dealings in Foreign & Colonial PEP Investment Trust should have begun by the time this issue reaches readers .
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