Example sentences of "that i should [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man came from I would n't know , but I just felt as a op coopted parish councillor that I should make my voice heard on behalf of all the people that complain to me . |
| 2 | I do n't think , for instance , that I should want my death assumed and my property disposed of too soon , so we wo n't go into that part of the affair just now , if you do n't mind . |
| 3 | As a means of persuading her , the prince suggested to my chagrin that I should accompany him . |
| 4 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 5 | She seemed most impressed , and said that I should meet her boyfriend who was looking for a bass player , and so I joined his jazz-rock band back in 1973 and we did some touring in Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ He asked especially that I should meet you . ’ |
| 7 | But the fact that the medical profession has , for example , tended to restrict entry to the profession so as to preserve status , jobs and income , does not imply that I should withhold my trust in the ability and intention of my doctor to act in my best interests . |
| 8 | I have spoken to your constituent and he is happy that I should cite his case , because it demonstrates the way in which things are happening . |
| 9 | It was terribly important that I should beat him , and I struggled desperately against the invisible forces that always prevent one running in dreams . |
| 10 | I insisted that I should pay her a rent of five shillings a week and also asked her , somewhat tentatively , if she felt able to come and have tea with my mother in Romford . |
| 11 | He felt that I should tell her on my own . |
| 12 | If you think it should be on my conscience that I take advantage of her ignorance , then it is only fair that I should tell you she has , in the past , been unfaithful to me . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm not sure that I should tell you , but seeing that you are a policeman … |
| 14 | Not , ’ he added wryly , ‘ that I should tell you that . |
| 15 | Since I hated the police , it was natural that I should feel myself aligned with the prostitutes . |
| 16 | WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | ‘ What the hell did you expect , that I should treat you as some kind of equal ? |
| 18 | I had to laugh at myself for thinking rather longingly now that I should miss it this year , and especially I would miss Addy , whom I loved . |
| 19 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 20 | And although for my own part it would be my ruin , yet so great is my veneration for you , so entire my reliance on providence upon so just an occasion that I should think myself but too happy if I might be accepted . |
| 21 | He suggested that I should visit my local training and enterprise council , the London East TEC . |
| 22 | Each time I asked , you fobbed me off , and now you 're suggesting that I should fix my belief in you without some kind of hook to hang it on . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 24 | But he urged on me that it was the Prime Minister 's particular wish that I should do anything I could to prevent its publication . |
| 25 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 26 | And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you suggesting that I should do it for you ? ’ she queried sweetly . |
| 28 | They said that I should return it in its box , with the receipt . |
| 29 | To know that I , as a person , am thoroughly good , intelligent and desirable , and that being so it is only logical that I should love myself passionately and unconditionally is quite a leap . |
| 30 | The innermost box is that I should love him ; in all ways . |