Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 2 | And before you suggest that I should consider annihilating this entire sector of the galaxy — ‘ |
| 3 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 4 | Then he proposed that I should marry him , |
| 5 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 6 | I expect that I should have burst into tears . |
| 7 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 9 | Celia hesitated and then plunged on : ‘ I do n't know if I should mention this , but Yorick was very upset that Ivor was n't there . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , then I do n't know if I should tell you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know if I should wake you . |
| 12 | Bob knocked back his coffee , and I was about to stand when he said , ‘ Listen , Alex , I do n't know if I should say this to a poet , but there are some things a damn sight more urgent than the doggerel of a dead country squire . |
| 13 | Well I , I do n't know whether I should make a or |
| 14 | Dr Kent , I do n't know whether I should ask them at all . |
| 15 | I do not think that I should explain to the hon. Member why he was not called . |
| 16 | I do n't really think that I should get a lot of pleasure out of going to watch croquet tomorrow . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | When we talked we agreed that I should send you a copy of the Resource Book for Teachers on CALL . |
| 19 | The Cabinet discussed the matter this morning , and the whole House may care to listen to the message that the Cabinet agreed to send Her Majesty : ’ At the Cabinet meeting today , Your Majesty 's Ministers agreed that I should convey to Your Majesty our warmest good wishes on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Your Accession to the Throne . |
| 20 | ‘ But you 'd prefer that I should do so ? ’ she persisted . |
| 21 | When I played , people who heard what I was doing and liked it recommended that I should get a Precision , which I eventually did , but I could n't seem to get enough of my own playing character to come through with it . |
| 22 | Are you suggesting that I should ignore them ? |
| 23 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I should do it for you ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 24 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're suggesting that I should run away from this woman ? ’ |
| 26 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 27 | But with the coming of peace , I realised that I should have to face a new , strange , ‘ normal , world — alone . |
| 28 | Insists that I should shut my trap |
| 29 | For even if we achieve the objective of a full franchise then the purpose of that full franchise will not work for disabled people if they do n't have full access to polling stations , they only then have the alternative of using postal or proxy votes and not exercising their franchise in the same way that able-bodied people er will do and their full right are part of the measure that I 'm seeking the house to agree that I should pursue . |
| 30 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |