Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of merely examining how the law enforcement process in its broadest sense constructs a false image of serious crime and its perpetrators , they suggest we should consider the social construction of criminal law categories . |
| 2 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 3 | They say I should 've been a member of Leith branch . |
| 4 | They say he should have waited around like a good boy , taken a few duff , even Duff fights , and he would have been rewarded in due course by boxing 's power brokers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Councillors say while it appears the situation is a fait accompli , they feel they should take every opportunity to save the home . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They reckon he should 've said cut it down to about two or three , four pints a day , there 's fifteen milligrams of valium . |
| 11 | No it 's not they reckon you should leave a two second gap if yo , if you 're travelling at thirty , forty miles an hour . |
| 12 | They claim he should have faced a Crown Court judge for causing death by reckless driving . |
| 13 | They should n't drink and if they do they should ask someone else to drive . |
| 14 | They say anyone who thinks they recognise him should contact police immediately . |
| 15 | ‘ Remember , people see what they think they should see . ’ |
| 16 | Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better . |
| 17 | They think we should breed lambs off them and we do n't do that because they are too young to stand the environment , ’ Mr Hartley said . |
| 18 | They think we should raise the price of foodstuffs and decrease the general demand of the population . |
| 19 | someone going on about how they think you should understand it . |
| 20 | So he keeps going round asking everyone what they think he should do . ’ |
| 21 | Because I 'm not flat-chested , they think I should hide my body underneath a big black dress or something . |