Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that i should [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while .
2 The question that I should like to address is what are the implications of Bourdieu 's standpoint on the structure/agency problem for issues of reflexivity , truth , and validity .
3 ( Victor Cousin , for that matter , was of the opinion that I should marry Gustave Flaubert . )
4 The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me .
5 If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ?
6 I do n't think that even though by next year I would be a bit better of in the sense that I should have sold my house bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so that I have a little extra monthly income .
7 Yes , yes I do n't think that on our next buy , what with the next year I would be a bit better off in the sense that I should have sold my house , bought something cheaper and have some capital invested so I have a little extra monthly income , I should be living in somewhere that 's cheaper to run
8 They would have found me a bed , but it was not in the bargain that I should linger after I was no longer needed .
9 The ch'i however varies in density from person to person , and the line that I should follow may be hard to discern through the turbid obscuring ch'i of which I am composed .
10 says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ?
11 The producer had the idea that I should appear in a simply ludicrous costume : a German trench coat , knee-length open boots , a black leotard with the upper part of the thighs naked , and hair like Marlene Dietrich !
12 I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday .
13 Thus , for several weeks both Monty and I were relieved of any responsibility in the matter and turned our attention to other and more profitable activities ; but I was foolish in the expectation that I should long be left in peace .
14 The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement .
15 I did not feel I should miss his company , and the fact that I should have no fellow-countryman with me to take charge if I fell sick or was wounded did not worry me , since I had every confidence in Omar .
16 ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager .
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