Examples of 'should have been doing' in a sentence

Meaning of "should have been doing"

should have been doing: This phrase is used to express regret or criticism for someone's failure to do something that they were expected or supposed to do in the past. It suggests that the person had a responsibility or obligation to perform a certain action but didn't fulfill it.

How to use "should have been doing" in a sentence

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should have been doing
We should have been doing this a long time ago.
Stuff we were doing when we should have been doing something else.
We should have been doing that the entire time.
That boy was just doing what you should have been doing.
We should have been doing more of this in the campaign.
That is what they should have been doing all along.
Should have been doing magic your whole life.
That was what we should have been doing at the end.
I should have been doing every little thing for you.
Which is what we should have been doing all along.
I should have been doing this from the very beginning.
Something you probably should have been doing.
We should have been doing this from the beginning.
He said everything he was doing with me he should have been doing with him.
He should have been doing major stuff.

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Because you forget what you should have been doing.
What we should have been doing this whole time.
Gathering information is what he should have been doing.
He should have been doing it earlier in the game as well.
Maybe that was what we should have been doing this whole time.
We should have been doing crisis intervention.
Tom said that he felt he was not doing everything he should have been doing.
I should have been doing this all along.
It opened my eyes to a lot of things that we should have been doing differently.
You should have been doing the driving.
Just trying to do what people should have been doing from a long time ago.
You should have been doing the big brother stuff.
We do what we should have been doing.
I should have been doing it the whole time.
I knew in the back of my mind what i should have been doing the whole time.
You should have been doing this a long time ago.
Just trying to do what people should have been doing for him a long time ago.
I should have been doing something more to help.
I have been doing about half of what I should have been doing as a dad.
You should have been doing your job.
And quite frankly I believe apple should have been doing that a long time ago.
I should have been doing this for months.
Just doing what I should have been doing all along.
I should have been doing that anastomosis from the beginning.
This is what we should have been doing all along.
Should have been doing it to begin with.
This is what we should have been doing the whole time.
Should have been doing life, but a rookie contaminated the scene.
Which is what you should have been doing with old Carla.
I should have been doing some of those exercises during the time that the Y was closed.
I am gonna do what I should have been doing all along.
I should have been doing this my whole life.
Something I probably should have been doing for years.
We should have been doing since day one.
You attacked me when I was doing what we should have been doing together.

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