shouldn't
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shouldn't be (197 uses)
shouldn't have (101 uses)
shouldn't . (9 uses)
The film opened to poor reviews and mediocre ticket sales and Tate was quoted as confiding to a reporter, " It's a terrible movie ", before adding, " Sometimes I say things I shouldn't.
shouldn't go (8 uses)
Uncle Remus takes the dog in and delights Johnny and his friends with the fable of Br ' er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, stressing that people shouldn't go messing around with something they have no business with in the first place.
shouldn't take (7 uses)
I hadn't hurt anybody or been found taking something I shouldn't take, but I felt as if I was in the middle of a police investigation.
shouldn't , (7 uses)
When asked if another hanging attempt should be made, the girl's parents decide that it shouldn't, that the condemned man has suffered enough.
shouldn't matter (6 uses)
shouldn't give (6 uses)
* One shouldn't give these presents to others: clock or watch ( the recipient's time is going to pass ), cats ( mèo in Vietnamese language pronounced like nghèo, poverty ), medicine ( the receiver will get ill ), cuttle fish ( its ink is black, an unlucky colour ), writing ink ( for the same reason ), scissors or knives ( they bring incompatibility ).
shouldn't say (6 uses)
shouldn't do (5 uses)
shouldn't get (5 uses)
* In the Christmas Eve 1946 show of The Abbott and Costello Show, Santa lists one of the reasons that Costello shouldn't get a present as him having a certain book under his bed.
shouldn't use (5 uses)
An English teacher once wrote to him, complaining that he shouldn't use the word " ain't " on the air, as it was a bad example to children.
shouldn't talk (5 uses)
Her lover, Pierre, refuses to reveal the plot against the Senate to her, suggesting that women shouldn't talk out of bed, and Antonio never calls her by her name, but refers to her only as his " little Nacky " ( a slang term for a woman's genitalia ).
shouldn't underestimate (4 uses)
shouldn't play (4 uses)
shouldn't work (4 uses)
shouldn't leave (4 uses)
His departure went unexplained at the time, even to Capaldi and Wood, but he later said " Because of the way I ended the Spencer Davis Group, I saw no reason why I shouldn't leave Traffic and move on.
shouldn't care (4 uses)
Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.
shouldn't let (4 uses)
shouldn't change (4 uses)
In the view that sees a continuity between the Holocaust and previous tragedies, the Holocaust therefore shouldn't change our theology.
shouldn't " (4 uses)
Writing for the Chicago Reader, Jonathan Rosenbaum called the film " generic " and " standard issue ", stating that the audience shouldn't " expect to remember it ten minutes later ".
shouldn't like (4 uses)
shouldn't you (4 uses)
" I said to him then, " But as a defender of Gruhnspahn shouldn't you protect not only the interests of your client, but his honour as well?
shouldn't make (4 uses)
Although I suggested that you hold the bar at the back of the neck there's no reason why you shouldn't make some experiments with the bar held in front of the neck.
shouldn't they (3 uses)
If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??
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