by rights

You should by rights have had a break some time ago.

And by rights the thing should have been dead more than a million years ago.

By rights he should have been dead an hour before.

By rights, his sense of space told him, she should be there.

Things that by rights you should be able to do for yourself.

By rights he should have been able to pass for human.

Although, she added to herself, if they'd told the whole story by rights they should.

By rights, he should have gone home to bed, allowed himself some rest.

By rights they could have taken my life there in the hall.

"By rights the police ought to be told the very first thing."

The one person who, by rights, should have been there, was not.

By rights, you ought to have been here for at least another six weeks.

By rights she should have formed the heart of any defense.

If history had gone to plan it should, by rights, now be called Stone.

You're a young woman; you should by rights be married.

I mean, you should hand me over to the authorities, by rights.

By rights, this case should have been mine from the start.

The enemy too had lost many men and by rights they should have run.

My voice did not shake, though by rights it should have.

Or to feel that you are by rights the local hero.

By rights it, too, should be seen in more Western cities.

Both place and figure ought to have been somewhere else by rights.

By rights, that for which he searches should be near.

He was a man whom, by rights, she ought not even to like.

By rights she should have been exhausted, but not a bit of it.