Example sentences of "[conj] he should [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was not suitable that he should meet the eyewitness , he had been told . |
| 8 | But it was inconceivable that he should meet the lord of the house inadequately dressed . |
| 9 | It was arranged that he should open the discussion with a statement of this and other views . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My message to Mr Marland is that he should tell the government that Gloucestershire actually needs this extra money to provide much needed services |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The next day the rebels rejected the idea of peace talks , insisting that he should leave the country . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Donna 's latest demand was that he should extend the patio and then roof it over . |
| 17 | He insisted that he should visit the Tiller office so that he could observe at first hand how things were run . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | It would seem only fair that he should return the favour later . |
| 21 | Although Ramsay proposed that he should lead the decoy party , under the royal standard , Murray insisted that he himself must do that , as was suitable . |
| 22 | But it 's important that he should recognise the damage he 's done and the pain she has felt . |
| 23 | That he should tarnish the gift with a criticism was in character . |
| 24 | Mr Major said Mr Smith had been ‘ misled ’ by newspaper reports of the interview , and that he should read the transcript . |
| 25 | The minimum required of the social anthropologist is that he should write the biography of the people he studies . |
| 26 | The Socialist Party first secretary Laurent Fabius requested on Dec. 17 that he should have the opportunity to clear himself , by facing trial before a parliamentary high court , over the HIV-infected blood scandal [ see pp. 38544 ; 38978 ; 39161 ; R106 ] . |
| 27 | In one well-remembered case Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had tried to insist that he should have the marriage of the probable heiress to the Viscount of Limoges , but the nobles of the Limousin , fearing " the Poitevin yoke " , successfully resisted this demand and she was given instead to a Count of Angoulême . |
| 28 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 29 | For a few moments she thought he had no intention of answering her as her whole being quivered with indignation that he should have the nerve to pass judgement on her when not even her closest friends knew her innermost thoughts and longings . |
| 30 | The interests of the alleged contemnor require that he should have the right to be informed of the charges which he has to meet , to be advised and represented if he so wishes ( subject to his being eligible for legal aid or otherwise able to finance his defence ) , to be given a full and fair opportunity of meeting those charges and , if found guilty of contempt of court , to be informed in sufficiently clear terms of what has been found against him . |