Example sentences of "[subord] i should [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Although I should advise you not to scorn it .
2 Although I should warn you that about two hundred of those nine hundred rigs were probably actor active as a result of special tax breaks , which were ended at the end of nineteen ninety two and wo n't be repeated .
3 ‘ Four weeks ’ notice is required , I believe , ’ Merrill went on smoothly , ‘ so I should like it to take effect from today . ’
4 She did n't get many letters , he thought , so I should write her one .
5 I wondered if I should wake you up . ’
6 ‘ I did n't know if I should wake you .
7 I do n't know , I wonder if I should explain it
8 I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny .
9 ‘ Well , then I do n't know if I should tell you . ’
10 The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . )
11 Yeah it is I wonder if I should find it ?
12 ‘ It 's ridiculous , I know , but I feel as if I should know her , as if I 've seen her before somewhere . ’
13 PAMELA : If I should say I am not , then you will call me hard names and perhaps I shall tell a fib .
14 I 'm wondering if I should ring them actually , from unit , and ask them if tell them what 's happening and will she be able to go on Income Support if she does give it up ?
15 Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home .
16 ‘ But if I should ask you for — say , a cordial , to relieve my troubles … ’
17 Because I should say he has a powerful effect on you .
18 Well this is a cheek really because I should imagine it 's one of the most
19 And er I was standing there I was n't really sure whether I should sign it .
20 ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should tell you .
21 By the time I reached the address , I could not decide whether I should ask him to wait .
22 Dr Kent , I do n't know whether I should ask them at all .
23 ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’
24 The intensification of the war increased when on 10 June 1940 , Mussolini , making one of his last balcony performances , declared war , so that my newly-projected book on Italy seemed of immediate relevance , though whether I should complete it was another matter .
25 I 'm not absolutely certain , you see , as to whether I should say it .
26 But even if one is not antagonised by the appalling monotony of Mr. Lawrence 's theme , under all its splendid variations , one still turns away with the judgement : ‘ this is not my world , either as it is or as I should wish it to be . ’
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