Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] should [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had originally intended to polish up the wood and sell it for five shillings , but when he was fortunate enough to obtain the gramophone he realised he should repair the machine and install it in the cabinet . |
| 2 | When it was too late and Nails had had time to cool down , he realised he should have asked for Mr Bean or even Biddy or Nutty 's dad to be contacted . |
| 3 | He goes I should 've just fucked her ! |
| 4 | But Moore assumes we can ascribe inherent value to smaller units of reality and indeed this may be a necessary presupposition for the kind of calculations on the basis of which he thinks we should decide what is most worth doing . |
| 5 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 6 | The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part . |
| 7 | So he thinks I should do you because he despises me , too , and he thinks I 'm God 's scum . |
| 8 | He thinks I should phone the hospital and discuss it while he has his breakfast . |
| 9 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 10 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 11 | ‘ To make him do as I say , not as he thinks he should do . ’ |
| 12 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 13 | The doctor says it is n't serious , but he thinks she should rest in bed for a few days . |
| 14 | He thinks she should go to Pakistan because if she does n't she 'll get her own way . |
| 15 | Eventually he stopped at the window-seat and sat down by Elisabeth : ‘ He says we should ask Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre to act as caretakers of the houses on the usual terms until further notice . |
| 16 | But on the question of competitive tendering I think mentioned by Mr which he says we should have a different attitude . |
| 17 | ‘ He says they should save old newspapers because , I quote , ‘ folded up tight they make good logs for the fire and , in extremis ’ — that 's what he says , the fucker , in extremis — ‘ they make better insulation than wool . ’ ‘ |
| 18 | He says you should go , go jogging or something late at night . |
| 19 | ‘ He says you should leave Masailand now . |
| 20 | He says you should serve it with whipped cream for a lighter Christmas dessert . |
| 21 | He says he should have gone straight to prison . |
| 22 | He says it should stay as it is . |
| 23 | He says I should forget about the monastery . |
| 24 | He says I should wait to see how I really feel , but I do n't want to get married and my religious beliefs exclude sex outside marriage . |
| 25 | If he says I should ride to Swinbrook , why , that 's what I 'll do . ’ |
| 26 | How could he assume I should find Flora 's feminist outrage amusing ? |
| 27 | He believed nothing should stand in the way of the security of the United States , and was less choosy than Congress about what means he took to preserve it . |
| 28 | He believed he should come across someone who should want his skills — he was an incurable optimist , and imagined a fortunate meeting around every corner , though how that should come about was hard to see , as he advanced farther and farther into the dark , dense trees , where even the moonlight was split into dull little needles of bluish light on the moss , not enough to see by . |
| 29 | When questioned about selective internment , Mr Smyth said he believed it should go ahead and be even handed , involving both loyalist and republican terrorists . |
| 30 | He reckoned he should have been legless after his booze-up at a nightclub and insisted that the ale must have been watered down . |