Example sentences of "should [not/n't] [vb infin] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not find any reason why Benny Hogan from the shop across the road and Eve Malone from the convent up the town should not sit and drink coffee in her bay window , but somehow she would have preferred to keep the space for wealthier and more important matrons of Knockglen . |
| 2 | Iorwerth had three bowmen with him in the rear , to ensure that once the party entered the wood they should not turn and leave it again . |
| 3 | They tell us that we should not manufacture and deploy nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | " Yes , there is , " Martha replied , with a firmness which she could hardly have inherited either from her father or her mother , " but there 's no reason why we should n't go and look at things . |
| 5 | ‘ Then there 's no reason why you should n't come and sit with me for a few minutes . |
| 6 | A mother knows she should n't try and keep them tied to the apron strings |
| 7 | There 's piles of junk and stuff in tins the children should n't touch and stuff like that … ’ |