Example sentences of "i should [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do ye think ye are so fat : It 's me should be complaining . |
| 2 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 3 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 4 | On the other hand , there are in some cases statements of principle in general terms , which do not form part of the ratio decidendi and in others statements in dissenting judgments which it seems to me should be considered when the present question has to be resolved . |
| 5 | On the accession of Henry Tudor , the Shepherd Lord , as the young Clifford was known , was given back his lands and his faithful retainer knighted at his request ; ‘ I am but a simple man , Your Majesty , and I know not how I should be styled , ’ the good servant protested . |
| 6 | ‘ No , no , Mr Riley … it 's essential that I should be given something , I ca n't work until I have something . ’ |
| 7 | I should be obliged if you would now take the appropriate steps to have the recoveries examined or alternatively to authorise their return . |
| 8 | I should be enjoying it . |
| 9 | I should be honoured … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I should be honoured to have your company at dinner , Miss Leonora X. Whenever you 're ready to come downstairs give me a shout and I 'll come and collect you . |
| 11 | erm I do n't know if there are anything else I should be telling you . |
| 12 | If I sent my army against a border lord on a private quarrel I should be throwing Wales into Hubert 's hands . |
| 13 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 14 | ( I should be saving , says my father . ) |
| 15 | I told myself , if there is any justice in the world I should be punished for it . |
| 16 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |
| 17 | I pressed my face right into the mud , I was urinating , certain that at any moment I should be killed . |
| 18 | I certainly do not charge the Minister with dishonesty ; if I were to do so I should be reprimanded . |
| 19 | As one single mother noted about the financial support she received from her mother , ‘ it 's not very nice her doing it because I feel I should be helping her ’ ( Cohen , 1991a , p. 40 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I should be helping you , ’ said Tessa . |
| 21 | I SUPPOSE I should be cheering myself hoarse that Britain has finally produced a heavyweight fit to challenge for the championship of the world in the person of Lennox Lewis . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , Philippe thought I should be kept out of the way for a few days … ’ |
| 23 | Hands on knees and lights out with a mind buzzing like a bee and the strong conviction that I should be sorting out something more tangible than my mind . |
| 24 | No way , I 'm standing in a nice and warm place I do n't think I should be copying a tree anyway a trees a tree . |
| 25 | Since I made an arrangement with the man in your office I am having a baby and my doctor says I should be getting more of it . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I should be getting along . |
| 27 | ‘ I should be getting back . ’ |
| 28 | But I think I should be getting back … ’ |
| 29 | So I should be getting one . |
| 30 | A second later , a Vadinamian official came on-screen and irritatedly pointed out that the Valve was about to open and I should be moving . |