Example sentences of "that [pers pn] should [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 2 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 3 | I feel that I should make a more concerted effort to leave my profession and find a new and more satisfying career . |
| 4 | The American authorities told me that I should make a general election law and arrange that the Korean people rule themselves . |
| 5 | ‘ You suggested that I should make a fresh statement . ’ |
| 6 | I conclude that I should grant a declaration as in the terms of paragraph 1 of the application , that is , that the applicants appointed pursuant to a facility letter dated 15 May 1990 and a debenture dated 28 April 1989 made between I.B.C. and the Swiss Bank Corporation are administrative receivers within the meaning of section 29(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 7 | Rebecca West has often plainly hinted that I should arrange a meeting with Ivy , whom she dearly wished to see . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt that I should hire a fully fledges historian , and Dr Kathryn Castle was terribly important to this book , as was her husband Paul , who is also an academic . |
| 9 | I think that I should say a word about the respective roles of Parliament and the courts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You will understand when I say that I should like a poem to stand as preface to your book , a poem which we have both admired so much , Thomas Hardy 's ‘ Afterwards ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ That I should play a lot of tennis . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Just that : that I should play a lot of tennis . ’ |
| 18 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 19 | A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk . |
| 20 | LADY DAVERS : Did I not tell you , Jackey , that I should have a wit to talk to ? |
| 21 | If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ? |
| 22 | I decided that I should ask a friend for a loan of his electronic pH meter to find out the exact difference between the two tanks . |
| 23 | When I played , people who heard what I was doing and liked it recommended that I should get a Precision , which I eventually did , but I could n't seem to get enough of my own playing character to come through with it . |
| 24 | They said it was out of date and that I should get a Parrot jacket like the one Adam Faith wears on telly . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 26 | I was right , as the answer was that I should get a reply ’ as soon as possible ’ . |
| 27 | I do n't really think that I should get a lot of pleasure out of going to watch croquet tomorrow . |
| 28 | They 've also asked that I should put a drawing of this scheme which they have sent to me in the May edition of the Bramley , with an article from them , explaining it , asking for comments from the public , and this will be their public consultation exercise . |
| 29 | He regarded my attainment of ‘ full genitality ’ as the ultimate goal of his therapy and he was determined that I should enjoy a complete cure . |
| 30 | That she should spare a first glance , let alone a second , on this man was almost incredible . |