Example sentences of "that [pron] should [vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 2 | In Jones v. Padavatton [ 1969 ] 1 W.L.R. 328 at 333 , above , p. 186 , Salmon L.l. said of Shadwell v. Shadwell : ‘ I confess that I should have decided it without hesitation in accordance with the views of Byles l. , but this is of no consequence . |
| 3 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 4 | And what were my wonderful talents , that I should have felt it mattered that they were ‘ wasted ’ ? |
| 5 | He was playing so well at The Belfry ( Lawrence Batley International ) in his practice rounds , especially , that I should have known he was going to do something special . |
| 6 | The children did n't understand at first , but when it was later explained to them , they were enormously proud that she should have singled them out for a visit . |
| 7 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 8 | It was so obvious that he marvelled that none should have seen it before him . |
| 9 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 10 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 11 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 12 | But now It had changed ‘ There were ideological arguments amongst the existing staff ’ , Williams remembers , ‘ some argued that we should have allowed them to continue , to take over . |
| 13 | He could have complained that they should have asked him earlier . |
| 14 | If a conventionalist thinks that the Court should have disregarded Plessy in Brown because racial segregation is especially immoral , he will insist that the Court should have made plain to the public the exceptional nature of its decision , that it should have admitted it was changing the law for nonlegal reasons . |
| 15 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 16 | He uses the same strategy in scene one when he realises that he has failed to infer from McKendrick 's prompting that he should have recognised him . |
| 17 | Well and even that did n't jog his memory , that he should have asked her to judge it ! |
| 18 | Self-government failing to arrive — how extraordinary that he should have thought it would — a campaign for the non-payment of taxes was initiated in Bardoli , near Bombay . |