Example sentences of "[that] he should [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 2 | He tried to persuade his friend that he should lend him some tools . |
| 3 | Having used most of it up taking shots of you , he realises that when anything happens that he should cover he 's going to look very foolish with no film in his great big camera . ’ |
| 4 | But cold reality was but a split second away , and Leith went swiftly from dream world to fury that he should involve her in this sham . |
| 5 | Trent knew that he should do something . |
| 6 | Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it . |
| 7 | On that same visit to Algiers Gide befriends another Arab boy , Athman , and determines that he should accompany him when he returns to Paris . |
| 8 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 9 | The thought occurred to him that he should give them some orders , but he could n't think of any . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it may be even more important that he should meet me . |
| 11 | She choked out Rosalba 's message , that he should meet her there , in the same place , tomorrow , that he should come , as if to light a candle , and she would be there , doing the same thing , early , before the morning Mass . |
| 12 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 13 | It seemed shocking that he should feel he had a right to complain about being woken up when the country was on the verge of civil war . |
| 14 | When her husband returns , she first pretends that the cat has taken them , but when he does not believe this reassures him that the birds are being kept hot and that he should fetch his knife to cut them . |
| 15 | He was pleased she had n't suggested that he should fetch it . |
| 16 | It was intended that he should manage his father 's sheep ranches in Australia , but in 1886 he was articled to Charles E. Davis [ q.v. ] , city architect of Bath , where he remained until 1889 . |
| 17 | In real life , too , there was an intention ( perhaps stronger on her side than his ) that he should marry his landlady 's daughter , but nothing came of that because , on returning to Johannesburg , Herbert met Grace , who was in fact to become his first.wife and John 's mother . |
| 18 | She could see his brain struggling to find an escape route and that he should want one hurt and shocked her . |
| 19 | It is entirely typical of Pound that he should want his criticism to be immediately useful — to , as he says , ‘ the neophyte ’ . |
| 20 | I was furious that he should leave you destitute upon the world . |
| 21 | It was untenable that he should blame her for something that was not her fault . |
| 22 | It is necessary for the reader 's initiation into James 's world that he should hold his convictions in suspense , ie he should be aware that more things are hidden than have yet been shown . |
| 23 | Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that he should hold his nerve to the twin track of political progress and strong security ? |
| 24 | But he also felt that he should visit his mother . |
| 25 | Latimer pleaded for time to prepare a defence to the charges against him , but William of Wykeham insisted that he should answer them immediately . |
| 26 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 27 | I told the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) , who first raised this matter , that he should draw it to the attention of the Serjeant at Arms , when appropriate action would be taken . |
| 28 | In the light of such reflections of opinion , stereotype reports that people ‘ with insight ’ were saying the Führer could not be aware of the extent of the damage , otherwise more extensive rescue operations would have been deployed , or that people were looking ‘ full of trust ’ to the Führer and expressing the wish that he should stir them up and strengthen their faith , have a hollow ring to them . |
| 29 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 30 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |