Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i should [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 2 | Since I hated the police , it was natural that I should feel myself aligned with the prostitutes . |
| 3 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 4 | I do n't just say it , because time is valuable and I should explain what 's happening in the region but I think it 's also very important to convey this to you after your years and decades of solidarity with the liberation struggle . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure that I should tell you , but seeing that you are a policeman … |
| 6 | To know that I , as a person , am thoroughly good , intelligent and desirable , and that being so it is only logical that I should love myself passionately and unconditionally is quite a leap . |
| 7 | ‘ At the moment we are confident but I should imagine we shall be nervous on the day . ’ |
| 8 | And er I was standing there I was n't really sure whether I should sign it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should tell you . |
| 10 | It was terribly important that I should beat him , and I struggled desperately against the invisible forces that always prevent one running in dreams . |
| 11 | I have spoken to your constituent and he is happy that I should cite his case , because it demonstrates the way in which things are happening . |
| 12 | This is very important and I should imagine there 's been more trouble , probably , with people representing the authority and being rather officious , and this has got no one anywhere . |
| 13 | If you think it should be on my conscience that I take advantage of her ignorance , then it is only fair that I should tell you she has , in the past , been unfaithful to me . ’ |
| 14 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 15 | Everyone was really keen that I should enjoy their area and I certainly did . |
| 16 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |