Example sentences of "i should " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe , if I were reduced to rest Turner 's immortality upon any single work , I should choose this . |
| 2 | This picture goes straight to my heart ; I should like to lean against that tree between the old man and the girl and listen while the youth played . |
| 3 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 4 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 5 | I should have thought that is part of the reality with which legislators are faced , part of the situation within which they operate . |
| 6 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 7 | You prick , he said , I should never have let you take them up . |
| 8 | I should never have trusted you with it , he said . |
| 9 | Perhaps I should simply have left it alone for a while . |
| 10 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 11 | None the less , he wrote , I should not have let her see it . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to have the impression that I should feel almost privileged to work at certain big-name establishments when I saw the size of my pay packet , and I never used to know my general manager . |
| 13 | ‘ I should jolly well hope you do see it , ’ Lady Woodleigh snapped . |
| 14 | Unless you have a good reason for standing over there I should come out and get some fresh air . |
| 15 | ‘ Who do you think I should thank , Mrs Mitchell ? ’ |
| 16 | I should have known better . |
| 17 | And I think I should definitely be awarded my doctorate as soon as possible . |
| 18 | I should think we 're all agreed about them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I should think so … ’ murmured Henry . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I should n't have said that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Parysatis did it with a chicken and I should have thought of it before . ’ |
| 22 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 23 | My intention is that I should leave at the end of the year . |
| 24 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 25 | You 're all right Jack and I should be lucky for what I can get . |
| 26 | For let me tell you something : I 've respected myself far more for doing cleaning jobs well than for doing teaching jobs badly — and it is entirely appropriate that I should do so . |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe I should have stayed and fought ? ’ |
| 28 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 29 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There are some personal bits and pieces that I 'd like to hang on to but you can chuck the rest , I should think . ’ |