Example sentences of "he should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 32 | Finally , if he gets pain at night he should sleep on an extra pillow or raise the head of the bed a few inches to stop the gastric juices flowing upwards into his chest . |
| 33 | He knew he should sleep . |
| 34 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 35 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |
| 36 | But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment . |
| 37 | When her husband returns , she first pretends that the cat has taken them , but when he does not believe this reassures him that the birds are being kept hot and that he should fetch his knife to cut them . |
| 38 | He was pleased she had n't suggested that he should fetch it . |
| 39 | John Browne , who is standing as a rebel Tory candidate against the official Conservative in Winchester , rejected yesterday a plea by five people who had been supporting him that he should stand down . |
| 40 | For instance , Skipper was not impressed with my suggesting that he should stand still while I got on and wait until I asked before moving off . |
| 41 | Because Peter was already an experienced golfer he knew just how he should stand , how he should hold the club , what sort of swing was required and how hard to hit the ball . |
| 42 | Benn joked to Ceauşescu that he should stand for the general-secretaryship of the Labour Party too ! |
| 43 | He should stand up and repudiate the threat in the House . |
| 44 | For once in his life he should stand up and support service men who need help . |
| 45 | I think , and David agreed with me , that he should stand back from this initially . |
| 46 | 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 |
| 47 | 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 |
| 48 | If the spokesman risks this hazardous operation , he should stand well back from the edge of the pavement or risk being splashed by the mud and water spilling from these ‘ sealed lorries . ’ |
| 49 | Out of 23 Scottish Labour MPs , 14 expressed their support for Mr Clarke , four felt he should stand down and one was undecided . |
| 50 | Similarly , the motorist who discovers that he should pull out the choke button a particular amount so as to get the car to start on a cold morning is also an empiricist . |
| 51 | He should pull himself together , buy himself a decent set of clothes and pop down to the Today ( sic ) for a shift in the showbusiness department . |
| 52 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 53 | My advice is that he should pull into a lay-by , turf the others out and then hand the wheel over to firmer and safer hands . |
| 54 | He should pull his finger out and all ! |
| 55 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 56 | Ludens will bring Marcus here , he should show up any moment , I hope he has n't messed up the car ! ’ |
| 57 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 58 | And they 're for your mother , not you ! ’ she declared , incensed that he should show so little consideration . |
| 59 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 60 | It was arranged that he should open the discussion with a statement of this and other views . |