Example sentences of "[that] i should [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 2 | It seems odd that I should be expected to pay for the privilege of assisting in this way , in particular , as I doubt that these changes will alleviate the falling numbers of applicants to medical schools in the UK . |
| 3 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 4 | Who has the right to ordain that I should be the one to go mad in this house , with a senile old woman of almost ninety years ? |
| 5 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 6 | When I left home , I thought , in my pride , that I should be sufficient unto myself , like my friend the cat . |
| 7 | One very urgent and necessary reason for our absence is that next Friday my opera is being performed again and it is most essential that I should be present . |
| 8 | In the meantime , please do n't hesitate to contact me if there is anything urgent that I should be doing in connection with Olympus . |
| 9 | His greatest concern was that I should be strong and brave , good at games , good at work , and that he should get his money 's worth from my education . |
| 10 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 11 | ‘ My instincts told me that I should be aware of him and everything he did . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've told me the plan is that I should be opening , all things being equal , ’ he explained . |
| 13 | Eventually , he mentioned the present writer and suggested that I should be brought in on the matter as I had already knowledge of one or two other cases . |
| 14 | She replied that she and her community would co-operate in this task on one condition , namely that I should be the General Editor . |
| 15 | It was logical really that I should be brought from my anonymous safe house to the Hezbollah 's Hay Madi barracks . |
| 16 | The school authorities decided that my diet was to be strictly supervised , and that I should be weighed every week . |
| 17 | This research indicated that I should be able to obtain my tank , complete with cover glasses , for , though I might have manages even cheaper if I had asked someone who was a good customer of the tank-builder to order it in his own name rather than mine . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sick of reading that I should be in the England side . |
| 19 | ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya . |
| 20 | I had always felt , partly as a result of my upbringing , that I should be able to fend for myself , especially in a situation which was one of my own making . |
| 21 | We did an interview and , at the whim of my sadistic cameraman , it was agreed that I should be the " victim " . |
| 22 | It did not enter my head that I might have the seeds of a talent , that I too might have a career and that I should be preparing myself for it . |
| 23 | I do not therefore consider that I should be departing from the Vice-Chancellor 's decision by reaching a different conclusion on the present Act . |
| 24 | They responded by giving the general area a few desultory squirts with their foam , but informed me the place was a total loss , and that I should be fully content with having got out of it alive . |
| 25 | And that I should be giving such pleasure too . |
| 26 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 27 | When I got back , my daughter was at my mother 's and my mother said that I should be ashamed of myself because Natasha had been filthy and starving hungry . |
| 28 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 29 | I had said that we should go to Egypt for this , not believing that the occasion would ever really arise ; that I should be married to Syl and taken to the country in which I had come to life and lost it . |
| 30 | But he was genuinely shocked that I should be frightened . |