Example sentences of "[that] [pron] should [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The producer had the idea that I should appear in a simply ludicrous costume : a German trench coat , knee-length open boots , a black leotard with the upper part of the thighs naked , and hair like Marlene Dietrich ! |
| 2 | I do not think that I should explain to the hon. Member why he was not called . |
| 3 | And finally she said , this was her judgment , that the price of her love was that I should return to the front — not for her , but for myself . |
| 4 | The next day I received a visit from Humphrey Atkins , by then our Chief Whip , telling me in enthusiastic and forceful terms that I should stand for the leadership . |
| 5 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 6 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 7 | On Tuesday , the day before the funeral , Alan reminded me that I should check with the crematorium organist that he would play the music I had requested , which was Prokofiev 's Winter Bonfire . |
| 8 | My intention is that I should leave at the end of the year . |
| 9 | Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | When this happened you said that I should call on the spirit of the wood . |
| 11 | As agreed , he swung a punch to my chin so that I should rise in an elegant arc of slow motion to fall sprawled in a dramatic contortion on the bar room floor . |
| 12 | He had even painted the convent where I had sought consolation in my early homesickness and had agreed with Mother Joseph that I should apply to the Mother House to be accepted as a postulant and return in the course of time , if God so willed , as a professed nun to help her teach the children and grow the herbs and milk the goats and say the prayers in the cool chapel . |
| 13 | But Gould said : ‘ I knew the financial problems facing the club when I became manager in the summer and it was my idea that I should work without a contract . |
| 14 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 15 | ‘ Sulaiman said that I should write to the WBC . |
| 16 | ‘ You did n't think it was odd that someone should call on the Rector that late at night ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is ridiculous that somebody should talk to a party and at the same time dictate to that party who should be heading it , ’ he said in an interview with The Independent . |
| 18 | But all the same , Mr Browning thought it wise that she should send to the Ogilvys a letter for Gigia to carry in which both she and Ferdinando formally requested the return of their young son and gave her power to remove him from the care of his aunt and conduct him to Italy . |
| 19 | The woman had promised the youngest child that she should go to the fair , but she must go when it suited her mother . |
| 20 | Now he 's told her that she should pay for the new family car . |
| 21 | ‘ We can go back to Rose Cottage , always supposing Pook s Common is still where we left it , and I 'll make coffee , ’ she offered , aware that she should contribute to the peace that had broken out between them . |
| 22 | Thus , for example , a woman 's wish to work outside the home might conflict with the expectation that she should care for an elderly relative . |
| 23 | Chen looked past Axel momentarily , lifting his chin , indicating to Wang Ti that she should wait in the other room , then he looked back at Axel , his face creased with concern , his voice suddenly softer , more sympathetic . |
| 24 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 25 | The woman , who had decided that she should drive during the morning and he in the afternoon , hummed softly to herself as she drove east along the coast . |
| 26 | This does not mean that you should stay in a firm that stoops to fraud or illegality ; but idealistic notions have to face an economic assessment . |
| 27 | ‘ That you should refer to the child in the neuter . |
| 28 | It is better that you should go to the doctor and feel foolish for having imagined it than ignore it and face dire consequences , because it is real . |
| 29 | Bear in mind , when you are starting a shot , that you should allow for the backspace time . |
| 30 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |