Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [that] [pron] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 2 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 3 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 4 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 5 | Bukharin was warning that there should not be such a fundamental revision of policies as would mean a return to the arbitrary and commandist methods of ‘ war communism ’ , This meant that , for Bukharin , industrialisation should proceed within the established framework . |
| 6 | P.B. Chris was saying that she should be in on the interviewing . |
| 7 | It was upsetting that he should have arrived on her very first real day back . |
| 8 | Now he was insisting that she should give him the dress she was wearing to pay off the debt . |
| 9 | In a way it was flattering that they should take his word . |