Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] should [vb infin] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even in Strauss the forward placing of the horns is ultimately self- defeating ; where they should leap out if the texture ( as at 13′29″ ) we 've already had more than enough of them . |
| 2 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 3 | I du n no what 's best — you know , if I should go out or stay here . |
| 4 | He left Ella asking Dolly if she should go down and get her mum . |
| 5 | Alexandra was not sure if she should sit down before she was invited to , but by now she hardly cared . |
| 6 | For example , if you smell burning in the middle of the night you will respond immediately and fully , and not bother to ‘ consult ’ any body clock to see if you should calm down and be asleep ! |
| 7 | Community nurses and health visitors are paid a mileage allowance but you will also want to know who pays for what if you should break down or have an accident , and whether you can claim an allowance against income tax for general depreciation . |
| 8 | That way , if you should pass out before the ambulance arrives they will know when you last applied pressure . |
| 9 | Debasement of the coinage led Wriothesley to call the Mint ‘ our holy anchor ’ ; its profits were such that he told Paget to keep its operations secret , ‘ for if it should come out that men 's things coming thither be thus employed , it would make them withdraw and so bring a lack ’ . |
| 10 | If it should turn out that the individual in question is an Englishman , and not brave , then the implicature is mistaken , but the utterance , Grice suggests , need not be false . |
| 11 | Indeed , if it should turn out that the tropics are thermostatically stabilized , then changes in forcing which are associated with little change in dynamic heat flux are likely to cause very little global change . |
| 12 | I am not sure whether I should stand up or stay close to Suzie . |
| 13 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 14 | I asked whether we should work together or whether we should fight … it will be your decision , Holly . |
| 15 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 16 | Nathan was n't quite sure whether he should skulk away or knock and ask to come in . |
| 17 | So there they were , Vinkelkopf and Stu , lording it at Squire 's or Squires ' Wine Bar as the case may be , when who should step in but some vieille flamme of Herr Vinkel 's , and this Fräulein had in tow none other than what turned out to be our own dear Gillian . |
| 18 | In spite of the uncertainty expressed in the HMI survey quoted above , the impression from the questionnaires was that substantially more activity took place on primary than secondary courses ( though we should point out that HMI considered in their survey that secondary teachers had better ‘ assimilated the importance of language in children 's learning ’ in their training than primary teachers — DES , 1987 : 119 ) . |