Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] i should " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , you are my responsibility and I should get into trouble if you were not properly searched . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was going to write to Long Tall Sally ca n't make up my mind if I should or I should n't but it has got those little |
| 4 | As a means of persuading her , the prince suggested to my chagrin that I should accompany him . |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , landlord , my friend and I should like to hire a room here tomorrow evening , for about an hour , from seven-thirty . |
| 6 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 7 | ‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons . |
| 8 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 9 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 10 | After she was dead , after we had said the prayers for her , her son , the young one , brought it to me , all newly furbished like this , and said it was her wish that I should have it , for a musician without an instrument is a warrior without weapon or armour . |
| 11 | I have not acceded to the application of Madame Bihi to be joined as a representative or other party in this action but I have acceded to her application that I should invite the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae and Mr. Richards has appeared instructed by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 12 | By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him . |
| 13 | Various jobs followed in sales and marketing , with the shadow of my father always looming , together with his wish that I should work for his company . |
| 14 | Councillor Buchanan , therefore , is confused in imagining that the board is a committee of the council , on which he bases his argument that I should not have remained in office . |
| 15 | As for his suggestion that I should comment or write on the series , I did not follow this up . |
| 16 | I am dumbfounded you should even think of such a thing with that lovely new cream gown hanging in your wardrobe and I should have been so happy to lend you my pearls . |
| 17 | Subject to that er amendment is it your wish that I should sign those minutes as a true record of that meeting ? |