Example sentences of "[pers pn] should [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heading in the manuscript appears to tally with a stage direction in the word-book , ‘ A Chinese Man and Woman dance ’ , printed between the final verse and chorus ‘ They shall be as happy as they 're fair ’ But this direction means merely that the Chinese Man and Woman are to dance to the music of the verse , just as the next printed stage direction , ‘ All the Dancers join in it ’ , which follows the words of the final chorus , means that all of them should dance to its music . |
| 2 | She had suggested that one of them should pretend to be ill , shout for help and then , when one of their captors responded , the others should attack him . |
| 3 | The garden for them should feel like an extra sitting room , gnat-ridden perhaps , damp occasionally , but an important overflow of living space . |
| 4 | She agreed to try a behaviour chart and identified that each of them should sit in their own chairs , eat their own food quietly , and not interfere with each other . |
| 5 | After a long discussion , they decided that one of them should ask for more food after supper that evening , and Oliver was chosen . |
| 6 | Little wonder then that those who seek peace ( that is the absence of violence ) between nations as well as within them should look to law as a means of regulating and reducing the international use of force . |
| 7 | Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail . |
| 8 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | ‘ Sly , Sir , devilishly sly ! ’ would be my chapter heading , and egotism and idleness the principal characteristics that I should assign to him . ’ |
| 11 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |
| 12 | ‘ Instead of you complaining to the authorities about my supposd parque aquático , perhaps I should complain about your workshop . ’ |
| 13 | Now that you have had all four meetings with prospective purchasers I feel I should recap on the progress so far and set out how we move forward from here . |
| 14 | There is a small matter which I should draw to my hon. Friend 's attention . |
| 15 | Perhaps I should draw upon the comments made by a famous and long serving HMI , the poet Leonard Clark . |
| 16 | I shall require you to salute me , to speak to me only as vous , and , when you must address me , I should prefer to be called mon colonel . ’ |
| 17 | Not , ’ he added , his voice hardening , ‘ that I should dream of addressing the young scoundrel ! |
| 18 | I determined that it should not happen again and it seemed impossible that it should for this time I should carry with me the foundation of happiness which I had found behind the wire . |
| 19 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 20 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 21 | The letters started to arrive , the apologies , the confessions , the pleas that I should reply to him . |
| 22 | One is , is really , I felt I should reply in support of Mr concerning some of Mr 's remarks . |
| 23 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 24 | Pearn returned from Simla in the early part of 1945 and it was decided that both he and I should stay with the Department , go with it when the civil government returned to Burma , and get it working as effectively as possible . |
| 25 | What does that mean — I should stay in bed ? ’ |
| 26 | If I should wander into the uncharted minefield of personal opinion it is only with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 27 | If it were not permissible to take account of the Parliamentary history of the relevant legislation and of ministerial statements of its intended effect , I should remain of that opinion . ’ |
| 28 | If it were not permissible to take account of the Parliamentary history of the relevant legislation and of ministerial statements of its intended effect , I should remain of that opinion . |
| 29 | Mr MacAskill commented : ‘ It became clear the vote was a confidence issue in the party convener and I felt it was no longer appropriate that I should remain in his cabinet . ’ |
| 30 | I should explain to the Secretary of State that what has been involved is not so much a loss of dignity as a destruction of credibility . |