Example sentences of "you should [vb infin] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should 've been here yesterday fore . |
| 2 | ‘ You should 've been a policeman . |
| 3 | ‘ You should 've been told already . |
| 4 | Well you should 've been w yo yo you m you missed a lot last night , you should have been watching erm tt That 's Life , think it was That 's Life , where they had they had them on |
| 5 | You should 've been a lot through more than five . |
| 6 | What you should avoid is a board with a very wide square tail . |
| 7 | One thing that you should avoid is to give toy horns out at tea and then find the poor entertainer is facing a barrage of noise . |
| 8 | The first thing that you should examine is the time out value set up in your PostScript printer driver . |
| 9 | The oak will certainly be removing many nutrients from the soil so the first thing you should do is dig the area over well and incorporate plenty of organic matter such as well-rotted manure , garden compost , leaf mould or peat . |
| 10 | The first thing you should do is write down clearly everything you want . |
| 11 | Coronary risk factors are multiplicative , not additive , so if you already have one or two unavoidable risk factors , the last thing you should do is assume that the sword of Damocles is irrevocably poised above you and reach for another cigarette . |
| 12 | ‘ What you should do is simply stand on your feet and make sure you do n't commit yourself . |
| 13 | The last thing you should do is go on a spending spree at the end of the year to justify this year 's budget and enhance next year 's . |
| 14 | All it says is if you do buy something from a shop and realize it 's faulty , what you should do is take it back to the shop who sold it to you , together with your receipt if you 've still got it or some other proof of purchase . |
| 15 | One context in which it makes a difference is when you refer to a text by page or line number ; different versions are often different in this respect , so the least you should do is tell your reader which edition you are referring to ( which publisher , editor , etc . ) . |
| 16 | The first thing you should do is to prepare a breakdown . |
| 17 | Though what you should do is , is , just walk up to the ball , that line through there . |
| 18 | They can , what you should do is just drop the ladder in out , in the inside that 's all . |
| 19 | What you should do is erm |
| 20 | You 've got an order , try and , try and , what you should do is , you see some time we should sit and list them , right , you know you 've got an order form closed |
| 21 | No what , perhaps what you should do is |
| 22 | What you should do is tag them when they come in . |
| 23 | The maximum you should pay is 48p for a minute ; I 've checked it and I can place a concisely worded advert in about 45 seconds , and at cheap rate that works out at 27p . |
| 24 | OK , it sounds decidedly dumb , but one glaringly obvious thing you should check is whether your machine 's ‘ turbo ’ button has been pressed . |
| 25 | Whereas the least you should expect is that any type of funding should be tailor-made for you . |
| 26 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 27 | Brian had his cholesterol test on er little bit of paper they give you with all the information it tells you the only oils you should use are erm olive oil and saffro saffrall |
| 28 | When you are looking for insurance cover or considering the renewal of an existing policy the first thing you should consider is who to insure through . |
| 29 | So what you should have is a full diary , not full of appointments , full of activity . |
| 30 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |