Example sentences of "why [pron] should " in BNC.

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1 I see no more reason why everyone should read the ‘ classic ’ English novels than why everyone should be acquainted with ‘ classic ’ English paintings or music .
2 I see no more reason why everyone should read the ‘ classic ’ English novels than why everyone should be acquainted with ‘ classic ’ English paintings or music .
3 Why everyone should make a will
4 And I do n't see why I should let him end it . ’
5 ‘ I may be against this on principle but I do n't see why I should n't be able to make a little bit of capital , ’ he added .
6 I do n't see why I should be made to feel embarrassed just because your bloody sister wants to show off with her new sewing machine . ’
7 I do not see why I should so deliver myself up to those who are so assiduously conducting the campaign of abuse and denigration directed at me .
8 Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me .
9 That is why I should never have delivered up the opening pages of my long-worked novel to that ten-per-cent moron with the art-school mind and barrack-room mouth .
10 I like that dress , and I do n't see why I should n't wear it .
11 I do n't see why I should n't look people in the eye ; I 've as much right to walk the street as they have , have n't I ?
12 ‘ No , ma'am , and I do not see why I should . ’
13 ‘ I just did n't see why I should stop , it was too late .
14 ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial .
15 Anyway , I do n't see why I should n't talk to my own son if I choose .
16 I do n't know why I should be ; it was quite a reasonable assumption and I ca n't begin to imagine how anyone would dare to whip two manuscripts like that out of sight — I 'd never have the nerve .
17 So then , there seems little reason why I should not undertake my motoring trip to the West Country .
18 But all in all , I can see no genuine reason why I should not undertake this trip .
19 I never ticked it , it does damn all for me , I do n't see why I should n't insist on my first colour-choice or nothing .
20 Now , could someone give me one good reason why I should bow to a woman who , not long ago , was a junior publishing executive with a past spent as a member of a racy set of upper-class party-lovers ?
21 I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’
22 I do n't see why I should care for him as well . ’
23 I fail to see why I should concern myself with him any further . ’
24 But I do n't see why I should when you 're being so obstinate about this .
25 Is there any reason why I should n't use this water for my aquarium ?
26 There is no earthly reason why I should n't be able to move like these young athletes .
27 It 's as though the superego suddenly stops functioning , though why I should describe it in the kind of shit jargon dreamed up by that Jewish prick Freud is beyond me .
28 Is there any reason why I should not send you to prison for a very long time ’
29 But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so .
30 ‘ I can see no reason why I should n't keep my job because I have not committed any offence under military law , ’ he said at the time .
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