Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's probably just as well for all concerned at the club that I should hang my boots up for a while . |
| 2 | As I pull up at the back of the hotel Mr Shah is waiting with a folder full ; his expression , although friendly , contains around his mouth a little reproach that I should have been away from the action for so long . |
| 3 | ‘ She is tall and fair and fair-skinned , a nice green dress , good-looking I should say , although it was artificial light and I should think she looks very different in the day time … yes , I should think very different . |
| 4 | I said cancer is not a killer when I should have said it is not the killer it used to be . |
| 5 | I was still lackadaisical about my training , still playing dominoes in Mick 's cafe when I should have been out running repetition 300 metres on the West London track . |
| 6 | The first misunderstanding that I should like to clear up is the assertion that the Government have chosen King 's Cross as the terminal for the channel tunnel link and that Stratford will be merely a station along the route . |
| 7 | A postscript exemplifies Miller 's independence , an attitude which ultimately caused friction with his employers : ‘ Pray take no notice to any body what I sent you , for some of our Company is for making a law that I should part with nothing without the consent of the company . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Did I ever do anything so wrong as a child that I should deserve to suffer for evermore ? |
| 10 | The question that I should like to address is what are the implications of Bourdieu 's standpoint on the structure/agency problem for issues of reflexivity , truth , and validity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Was it because of my ‘ game with fate ’ , Leon inheriting Sleet if I should die ? |
| 13 | ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’ |
| 14 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 15 | You see , you are my responsibility and I should get into trouble if you were not properly searched . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you would wish to know , sir , that Her Ladyship is making good progress and I should like to take her further afield to tackle typical hunting country , so that she may get plenty of practice before she actually attends a meet . ’ |
| 17 | And first of all before we er we put the reports we , there are a number of er , there 's one alteration and a number of er , additions obviously alteration or I should say a a an amendment is something an important place on page fifteen er , at the tope of the page referring to December nineteen ninety two I 've put , which is agreed by GP committee with the exception of young these representatives , that we ask them to bring thirty pounds towards the cost that should be twenty five . |
| 18 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 19 | ( Victor Cousin , for that matter , was of the opinion that I should marry Gustave Flaubert . ) |
| 20 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 21 | Have you noticed that by and large , not all the time of course but I should say that eighty percent of the time birds face that way ? |
| 22 | I do n't I mean I know I I 'm very busy , I 've got stuff that I should have done , months and months ago , that I have n't got round to doing yet , cos there 's been all sort of interruptions . |
| 23 | " And in the rare event that I should miss , young Mister Deadeye here will be raring to let fly with a deadly Holland and Holland cannon of the same calibre . |
| 24 | As a means of persuading her , the prince suggested to my chagrin that I should accompany him . |
| 25 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Is there some development that I should have been made aware of ? ’ |
| 28 | London run the ball so I should have lots of opportunities . |
| 29 | The request that I should receive a consignment of most , if not all , of the issues was obviously impossible to meet ; and although I should much like to have had the ‘ run ’ of Eliot 's bookcase for an afternoon , I felt I could not seek permission , so soon after my arrival at the school , to go to London for that purpose , so I told Eliot that half a dozen well-spaced numbers would suffice for me . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |