modal verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
should have known
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I should have known it wouldn’t be easy.
should know better
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It’s just prejudice from educated people who should know better .
the punishment should fit the crime (= it should be appropriate )
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The public believe that the punishment should fit the crime.
you should have seen sb’s face (= used to say that someone was very angry, surprised etc )
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You should have seen his face when I told him that I was resigning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I should have thought ...
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And marriage, I should have thought , is a false step you must have been well warned against.
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Any leader, I should have thought , would have demanded loyalty and support from a vice-president as a basic minimum.
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It's very important to me - and, I should have thought , to you too.
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She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level, I should have thought .
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That is rather obvious, I should have thought .
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The royal crest is used on the front of the annual report, which I should have thought was improper.
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The scent of the tea as I poured it ... I should have thought .
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This seems an odd argument for smoking to me and, I should have thought , to smokers, too.
I should hope so (too)
I/you should be so lucky!
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Sleep past 6 a.m.? I should be so lucky !
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
children should be seen and not heard
how should I know?/how am I to know?/how do I know?
must/should etc be pushing along
sb will/would/should etc go far
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A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.
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And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.
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Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far .
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Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.
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It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.
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She'd been sure her daughter would go far .
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This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.
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Whether the stadium logs another round of lease-backed debt will go far in determining the fate of other major capital-improvement projects here.
should the need arise
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He knew that should the need arise for him to burst into consciousness, he would.
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The network topology is such that new file-servers can be plugged in at any time should the need arise .
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What she needed was a weapon of some sort, something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise .
should/ought really
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A party which feels obliged to pitch such climbs in good conditions should really go and choose something easier.
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I hoped that would help me through the omnipresent feeling that wherever I am, I should really be somewhere else.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Only when the natural world begins to fight back will we know how frightened we should really be.
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Participants should really have attended the previous weekend workshop but please call Pegasus for more information.
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To protect Britain's biggest manufacturer by making it less efficient: now that should really worry the public.
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You should really ask a grunt.
that should do it
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Slosh on a bit of this, and that should do it.
what sb should do with sth/what to do with sth etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children shouldn't take candy from strangers.
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The city should clean the streets more often.
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They should be here by 8:00.
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What should I do?
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You should have called me right away.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Annual revenues should be about $ 600 million.
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Counselors should request that each teacher of academic subjects provide a list of students who often fail to complete assignments independently.
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Last year the taxman pocketed 550 million from people who should not have been paying tax - or who paid too much.
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Once the glue is dry you should place the photograph in the correct position, securing it with masking tape.
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Slowly a knot of men formed around us, anxious that we should hear their problems.
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There are doubts now as to whether these should be continued.
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Why should spirits aid living beings?