Example sentences of "he should be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept he believes he should be England 's fly-half . |
| 2 | ‘ I am very happy with the way I am playing but I accept that he believes he should be England 's fly-half . |
| 3 | When Robert Devereux , second Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , suggested he should be attorney general the queen ‘ acknowledged his gifts , but said his speaking against her in such a manner as he had done should be a bar against any preferment at her hands ’ . |
| 4 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 5 | Athelstan was pleased to see that it was empty and insisted that this time he should be host . |
| 6 | He should be miles away by now . |
| 7 | It was inevitable that the Earl should be Lord Lieutenant of the County , and that he should be President of the Lancashire Unionists . |
| 8 | It was natural that he should be President of the Constituent Assembly when it met . |
| 9 | Himmler is a nonentity who thinks he should be Fuhrer in Hitler 's place and Himmler 's deputy is Reinhard Heydrich who is brilliant and daring and handsome and will kill Himmler first and then the Fuhrer , if they do n't pre-empt him . |