Example sentences of "[vb base] they should [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Some say they should bring back hanging ; others say it is the politicians they should hang ; but most say there is nothing anybody can do at all . |
2 | Bookmakers say they should handle the betting tax rebate as the money comes from their betting shops . |
3 | But , privately , the Italians say they should receive some understanding for their previous efforts to disengage from Libya . |
4 | Management say they should wait until September when the results of a EC study into pay is released . |
5 | Several needed help from lifeboat crews , who say they should have been involved in the safety planning of the event , and man found clinging to the moorings at the Woodside landing stage and was taken to hospital . |
6 | In the current financial year budgets what authorities would have spend in delivering services , not what the Welsh office consider they should spend , were two thousand six hundred and eighty eight million pounds and against that the next years settlement which we 're debating tonight , represents only a point six percent increase . |
7 | On other occasions when people feel tired , and again this applies particularly to night-workers , they know they should eat ( a rumbling stomach and hunger pangs tell them this ) and yet have no appetite . |
8 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
9 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
10 | Suppose they should encounter Lotta again ? |
11 | I reckon they should do tea here , I 'm getting really bored of coffee I tell you I heard Georgina scratched Ben across the arm |
12 | I reckon they should have next year a long weekend |
13 | Screen pundit Jimmy Greaves fumed : ‘ I reckon they should keep the football results and drop News at Ten . ’ |
14 | As far as their disabilities allow they should have the opportunity to participate in normal community activities . |
15 | Mr Major embodies the growing number of people who , though not mystified about their humble class origins , no longer believe they should remain , as he put it , ‘ boxed in ’ to them forever . |
16 | But this reverses the order of argument most of us would endorse : we share an understanding that our officials must treat all members of the community they govern as equals because we believe they should behave that way , not the other way around . " |
17 | ‘ They probably feel they should sort out their lives because of the risk of war , ’ Maureen said . |
18 | Councillors say while it appears the situation is a fait accompli , they feel they should take every opportunity to save the home . |
19 | You wo n't be allowed to erect a headstone , have a name-plate or put flowers on a common grave , so is it any wonder that the whole thing smacks of the dreaded ‘ pauper 's burial ’ and that , however poor , people will make monumental sacrifices to raise the money somehow for the ‘ something better ’ that they feel they should provide ? |
20 | There 'll be a competition to design the new centre , but the architects feel they should help establish the winning criteria . |
21 | As we read our participants ' accounts , the severity of retribution is to be understood against a background of the degree to which they feel let down in relation to their expectations of those they feel they should respect . |
22 | see so I mean they should know |
23 | I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week . |
24 | useless but I mean they should come out of somebody 's drawer under their own personal supply . |
25 | He said : ‘ I think they should switch attention from inflation to expanding the economy . ’ |
26 | ‘ In every speech I make , I try to communicate to the audience why I think they should bother to listen to what I 've got to say , ’ he told delegates over a video link between London and Torquay . |
27 | I think they should 've had |
28 | I understand the feelings but I think they should study circuses like us and say this is the sort of circus we want in Witney with no caged animals . |
29 | I appreciate that the television companies have to get the best shots of the game or we 'd complain about that , but I think they should bear in mind those people who have paid to see the game and , in some cases like mine , travelled a long way to see the match . |
30 | I once said to him ‘ if you ca n't pay compliments , do n't insult ’ I think they should do both . |