Example sentences of "[that] [pron] should think " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 3 | And that I should think is a source of this . |
| 4 | Oh it was more than that I should think . |
| 5 | Cissie seemed astonished that she should think such a thing . |
| 6 | Having signed on and said that she was looking for a job as a research scientist , she was advised that she should think again . |
| 7 | I should say that you should think , well those of us that are healthy any way , we should be glad that our body 's have stood us this length of time and have allowed us to come here to this programme and to take part in it , I 'm certainly delighted that mine 's a , gave me three children , nothing to complain about . |
| 8 | I never thought I should be — be improper to come , that you should think me patronizing . ’ |
| 9 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 10 | Since there is a connection , it is understandable that we should think there is . |
| 11 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 12 | To calculate unc Feynman tells us that we should think of all the different ways in which an old-fashioned electron with classically picturable simultaneous position and momentum could travel from the source through slit 1 and onto the specified point on the second screen . |
| 13 | His position is that we should think of rules as practices , as ways of behaving , and not suppose that to support this way of behaving there must be some internal interpretation of the rule which tells the rule-followers how to work the rule . |
| 14 | I suggest — I put it no higher , and we shall resolve nothing tonight — that we should think very carefully indeed . |
| 15 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 16 | Above them were the ‘ During-Puberty ’ pupils aged thirteen to sixteen whose curriculum was to include ‘ the laws of the feelings they now experience … it is best at this period that they should think as little as possible about these matters ’ . |
| 17 | If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it . |
| 18 | I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted . |
| 19 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 20 | She needed distance between them as she fought to smother a treacherous joy that he should think her beautiful . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course I am ! ’ she cried heatedly , quite aghast that he should think otherwise . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh ! ’ she gasped , and unable to believe that he should think such a thing , let alone say it , she was not sure she did not lose some of her colour . |
| 23 | Actually the instrument is a lovely one with a characteristically lucid tone , but I am bothered that anyone should think this was the sort of instrument Liszt had in mind ( or played ) at the time of writing works such as the Rigoletto Paraphrase and First Mephisto Waltz , both of which are delivered with considerable panache by Orolowetsky . |
| 24 | He is still on good terms with all his ex-wives and girlfriends ; he is bemused that anyone should think this odd . |
| 25 | Richard , he said , was deeply offended that anyone should think he would lower himself to the depths of duping the editor of Music Week . |