Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [conj] i should " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think that I should explain to the hon. Member why he was not called . |
| 2 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 3 | Since we are only concerned with a point of law , the precise facts do not matter but I should indicate them briefly to show the limited scope of this decision . |
| 4 | I do not feel that I should have to instruct even junior typists that my documents , all my documents , are entirely confidential . ’ |
| 5 | By the time I reached the address , I could not decide whether I should ask him to wait . |
| 6 | But the fact that the medical profession has , for example , tended to restrict entry to the profession so as to preserve status , jobs and income , does not imply that I should withhold my trust in the ability and intention of my doctor to act in my best interests . |
| 7 | They were among many things that disappeared after I left Cairo in 1953 , not knowing that I should not return . |
| 8 | So there I am , during this rather romantic conversation , toying with the little hairs in it 's ears , not knowing whether I should try and get in through the snout or what — but it had a happy ending . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah well , it was not meant that I should work in such a parish , ’ said Randolph . |
| 10 | They can not accept that I should cast votes on their behalf without first asking each of them what they think . |
| 11 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 12 | I could not imagine when I should have occasion to wear some of my more exotic outfits . |
| 13 | He did n't answer and I should have walked away then and there . |
| 14 | ‘ My dearest darling , I do n't know whether I should be writing this to you , but I still think of you every day of my life , first thing when I wake up and last thing before I go to sleep . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know whether I should — ’ |
| 16 | Well I , I do n't know whether I should make a or |
| 17 | Dr Kent , I do n't know whether I should ask them at all . |
| 18 | God , I do n't know if I should even be talking about it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know if I should wake you . |
| 20 | I did n't know if I should be flattered by the offer but I was most put out when my companion said : ‘ Throw in a goat and two carpets and she 's all yours ! ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , then I do n't know if I should tell you . ’ |
| 24 | and the a the idea of of erm the butch woman in dungarees , as being the feminist , erm and the women that burnt her bra or whatever was a feminist of the seventies , but it does n't mean to say that the ideas are n't still there , and I still want to be treated as an equal , but I do , I do n't see that I should change the way that I dress or the way that that I want to act |
| 25 | Well er er it had n't , well I du n no whether I should record this , it had n't very good reputation for pay and employment , but anyway |