Example sentences of "[indef pn] should [vb infin] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Can you think of any reason why someone should want to kill him ? ’ |
| 2 | He cared a lot about other people and could never understand why someone should want to hurt him . |
| 3 | Someone should have warned you . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 5 | Someone should have seen what a good wife she would have made . |
| 6 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 7 | But someone should have told me that you were here , ’ he added , shooting a glance at Rohan , who stood , his face expressionless . |
| 8 | It was so obvious that he marvelled that none should have seen it before him . |
| 9 | One should aim to cultivate one 's mind to its utmost potential . |
| 10 | But that one should have believed something in a hypothetical situation may and often is used as part of an argument to establish what one should now believe . |
| 11 | Two hundred and fifty five , and if we did it to he 's absolutely right , erm then this one should have given his bearing as two fifty three minus seventy , which comes to , what does that come to ? |
| 12 | ‘ Though perhaps one should try to do something to rescue Socialism here , ’ Stephen said softly , through both of them . |
| 13 | If they must be resident in the United Kingdom one should seek to reduce their powers so that they stand very much in the background acting only if things are going drastically wrong with the trust or major investment changes or beneficial ownership changes are to be made . |
| 14 | Police still know precious little about the dead man , least of all why anyone should want to kill him . |
| 15 | That anyone should want to kill anyone on this tender lovely evening was a concept beyond the understanding of all of them . |
| 16 | Few would seriously argue that Cobol was the best business programming language and adherents of APL can never understand why anyone should want to use anything else . |
| 17 | Why anyone should want to govern anyone else continues to escape me . |
| 18 | There is no more natural monopoly than the public utility of water supply and it is obscene that anyone should seek to make it the instrument of private advantage . |