Example sentences of "[adj] that she should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again Beth hesitated , thinking it wrong that she should use this lovely girl in order to lessen her own burden . |
| 2 | Mr. O'Brien was , Mrs. O'Brien said , extremely insistent that she should sign . |
| 3 | Hank was so used to being deserted by his mother that he did not think it odd that she should go out on the first evening in ten weeks that his father had been able to spend at home . |
| 4 | Would n't it only be right that she should go , too ? ’ |
| 5 | To her it could just not be right that she should love one man while being married to another . |
| 6 | However mistaken he thought that she might be , and that her vision of life was based on a charming naïveté which took little account of the cruel realities of existence , it was , to him , admirable that she should care about such things , and in such a practical way when all was said and done . |
| 7 | It was peculiar but pleasant that she should find the song painless . |
| 8 | But it was impossible that she should write to him . |
| 9 | Gazzer felt closer to Marie now than he had ever done before , and it mattered to him very much that she should take him seriously . |
| 10 | It is thus appropriate that she should begin her enterprise in Out with an investigation of that originary metaphor described by Nietzsche , the act of perception . |
| 11 | Julia was half convinced that she should tell the young people to go to the cinema and dances again but she consulted Pat . |
| 12 | It seemed very hard that she should have had to uproot herself completely while her husband could not even be bothered to accompany her on holidays to her own country . |
| 13 | It is grossly unfair that she should have been sentenced to life having been provoked by her partner over a period into killing him . |
| 14 | Just because she did n't know how to ride a motorbike or even want to , it was unfair that she should try to stop him . |
| 15 | Given that the announcement is outstandingly good news for the hon. Lady and her constituents , it is unfortunate that she should wish to introduce a divisive note . |
| 16 | It was imperative that she should reach Dana before he did . |
| 17 | It was inevitable that she should start like that but it did n't save her from a sense of her inadequacy . |
| 18 | It remains true , however , that because of the absolute size of the German economy ( now almost the equivalent of that of France and the United Kingdom combined ) it is inevitable that she should dominate any European Economic Union , particularly one based upon a Single Currency . |
| 19 | It was better that she should know the truth . |
| 20 | Astonishing that she should remember that and not what that weird word ‘ tardis ’ that kept battering at her brain meant . |
| 21 | It was no less astonishing that she should find room on her emaciated body to engrave in it , by her discipline , the wounds of the son of God … she gave herself such blows that her blood sprinkled the wails … and as she practised this penance daily every night she reopened her bleeding wounds by making new ones … |
| 22 | He did not know of the English habit of using such affectionate epithets rather haphazardly , and he was impressed that she should consider him her dear . |
| 23 | It was important that she should feel confident to discuss and question the progress of her husband 's condition in the less threatening environment of her own home . |
| 24 | It seemed to her important that she should meet him standing . |
| 25 | Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face . |
| 26 | The children did n't understand at first , but when it was later explained to them , they were enormously proud that she should have singled them out for a visit . |
| 27 | Still , he was shocked that she should have chosen to play such a part . |
| 28 | He studied the hand , then her face for a couple of seconds as if mildly amazed that she should wish to touch him . |
| 29 | He looked like a tiger baulked of its prey , but the amusement was only on the surface ; underneath he was furious that she should dare to try to escape him . |
| 30 | It was infuriating that she should need this arrogant cynic who only had to snap his fingers for the world to leap to attention , anxious to please . |