What is "should've"

Usage examples of "should've".

It's not your fault Abbas fixed Spam, although I'm sure Gardenaul said you should've reported it before dinner was served.

D'you think I should've gone hunting for potential recruits on a world like Biss'andra, where everybody's either a painter or a poet?

So I'm still alive when I should've been deaded ten times each of the past forty years.

I should've known this was a cross-path anomaly when I read about them, but the discovery of isolated pockets of a species has happened before.

Should've started working in two or three seconds and had him dead to the world in ten seconds at the most.

Now, if you wanted to get to Elysian Fields, you should've stayed on the Desire bus and gone past Dumaine Street and Esplanade Avenue.

He should've been smart enough to factor in what it would do to Bissel's twisted ego when Bissel's hands got bloody.

They hypered out on schedule, and they should've reached Thegran five hours ago.

The lavaliere wouldn't translate a snarl, but it wasn't hard to figure there should've been one.

What she should've done, see, is marry your sorry ass, lay low a few years, then leave after collecting more dirt on you.

Gateway should've had a comm-line crew out late yesterday, if they were on schedule.

But Randy is afraid that Chester's about to tell him that stock in that Minneapolis company is now up to the point where its market capitalization exceeds that of General Dynamics, and that Randy should've held onto his shares.

He could visualize every muscle fiber, every nerve cell, but for a moment that conscious awareness replaced the reflexes that should've brought action.

And I don't mean that Leland should've been shot in the back, though that's neither here nor there.

Said they've had more accidents on this job, which should've been a cakewalk, than they had on that stretch of highway they blasted through Pine Ridge.