Example sentences of "[pers pn] should have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that . |
| 2 | ‘ I never thought I should have a friend to play with and a pony to ride , Aunty ! ’ she said happily , as she got ready to go out and call for Angela Yatton . |
| 3 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 4 | But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I think I should have a talk to Mary , she 's got so many problems with her marriage . ’ |
| 7 | Well the thing to do maybe I should have a word with him . |
| 8 | Flavia said happily , ‘ It would be quite wonderful , I should have a family to come home to in the holidays all my life . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I should have a print for you in a day or two . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | LADY DAVERS : Did I not tell you , Jackey , that I should have a wit to talk to ? |
| 12 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
| 13 | It was Denis 's idea that Jack and I should have a medical . |
| 14 | ‘ Thought you and I should have a talk , Tod . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
| 17 | We 've prefaced that and the , the heading , I should have a copy , what ? |
| 18 | I should have a cup of tea . |
| 19 | I should have a bet |
| 20 | Er do you think I should have a bath now or should I |
| 21 | You should have a system for monitoring people 's work performance . |
| 22 | You should have a clear policy on confidentiality , on job security , on sickness benefits , on time off for treatment and on pension rights . |
| 23 | ‘ What I mean is you should have a reasonably clean bill of health by then , ’ Doctor Staples said . |
| 24 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 25 | More importantly , by the time you finish this chapter , you should have a good idea of the right size and shape for your body . |
| 26 | By now you should have a clearer picture of your current size and shape . |
| 27 | Perhaps you should have a rest . ’ |
| 28 | You appear to be in some sort of surreal shopping mall , with the world 's TV laid out for purchase : you almost feel like you should have a shopping trolley , to wheel up and down the aisles . |
| 29 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 30 | This is also a good place to practise strong wind starting , but you should have a colleague to support the sail if it falls . |