Example sentences of "[conj] he should [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another MP even suggested that he should quit the post before the Scottish party 's annual conference in March . |
| 2 | In Bourne 's view ( shared by many of Wycliffe 's high-ranking colleagues ) it was from there that he should conduct the investigation , receiving reports , issuing instructions , discussing the case with his officers and , very occasionally , interrogating a witness himself . |
| 3 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 4 | The pair agreed that he should do the job for two to three years , and would then expect to move to another , more senior position . |
| 5 | He had been asked to rewrite the words of The Rock , but he suggested to Ronald Duncan that he should do the job for him : " Watching the time he took to write even his signature , " Duncan noted , " it occurred to me that it must be a painful process for him to compose anything " . |
| 6 | In addition their captain Brian Smith persisted with his wayward goal-kicking long after it became apparent that he should pass the task to someone else . |
| 7 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 8 | The main concern of Bonar Law and Lloyd George was that he should give no support for an Asquith restoration . |
| 9 | Therefore I suggest to him that he should give an undertaking to do two things er first that he should do two things . |
| 10 | It was not suitable that he should meet the eyewitness , he had been told . |
| 11 | But it was inconceivable that he should meet the lord of the house inadequately dressed . |
| 12 | It was arranged that he should open the discussion with a statement of this and other views . |
| 13 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 14 | Once it is made clear that the judge makes new law in these circumstances , as conventionalism insists , then it seems plausible that he should choose the rule he believes the actual legislature then in power would choose , or , failing that , the rule he believes best represents the will of the people as a whole . |
| 15 | My message to Mr Marland is that he should tell the government that Gloucestershire actually needs this extra money to provide much needed services |
| 16 | Mr Lawrie said the recommendation that he should pay a sum to the council to be fixed by the Scottish Secretary is unreasonable . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that it is right that he should restate the Government 's commitment to their policy in Northern Ireland , based on the rule of law ? |
| 18 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 19 | As incumbent of Ayrshire 's oldest Earldom , Glencairn was reluctant to agree to Macrae 's suggestion that he should marry a commoner , especially one of such lowly background , but abandoned his scruples when told that Elizabeth 's dowry was to be £45,000 in diamonds and the estate of Ochiltree which Macrae had bought for £25,000 . |
| 20 | Early in the next century , the English Henry I is said to have suggested to his son-in-law , the Emperor Henry V , after the failure of his French campaign in 1124 , that he should levy a tax , evidently to improve his army . |
| 21 | Despite suggestions that he should bathe every day , he still suffers from smelly feet and bad breath . |
| 22 | The next day the rebels rejected the idea of peace talks , insisting that he should leave the country . |
| 23 | Obviously , this was what Emma wanted to read , but one would have expected her to take advantage of her rival Ælfgifu of Northampton 's absence from England to press Harthacnut 's case with his father , and it seems significant that both the Chronicle C and E texts consider Harold 's claim and identity questionable , that the Oxford meeting which followed Cnut 's death decided that he should hold the country for himself and his brother , and that Emma was allowed to reside in Winchester with Harthacnut 's housecarls to keep Wessex for him . |
| 24 | Donna 's latest demand was that he should extend the patio and then roof it over . |
| 25 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 26 | He had only recently joined QP and considered it important that he should serve the Church and enjoy worshipping the Lord in the place that God had put him . |
| 27 | His namesake , Martin , who made his debut in 1979 ( the local joke is that he should acquire a dog-collar like secretary Rev. Mike Vockins , as Sunday is now his normal working day ) , is to get a joint benefit with Damian D'Oliveira next year . |
| 28 | ‘ What will they do to you after I am gone ? ’ he exclaimed , and told Cranmer that he should change the crane on his coat of arms to a pelican , for like this bird he would have to give his life for his child , the English Church . |
| 29 | It would seem only fair that he should return the favour later . |
| 30 | Receiving a recommendation from North before the Tehran trip that he should arrange a meeting with ‘ RR , Shultz and Weinberger ’ , Poindexter tapped back testily : ‘ I do n't want a meeting with RR , Shultz and Weinberger . ’ |