Example sentences of "[prep] what [pron] should [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So let's have a look at an idea of what we should be looking at , should we . |
| 2 | The yellow-jacketed policeman shuffled uneasily from foot to foot , uncertain of what they should be doing now . |
| 3 | ‘ Other lads given a trial at 19 by a big club like Monaco might think they 've cracked it — but Lambert knows we are simply giving him a glimpse of what he should be aiming for . |
| 4 | Basically , however , the difference between these and other areas lies in the attitude to new development , either whether it should be permitted at all ( it often is not ) or , if it is , of what it should be constructed — the materials used generally have to be traditional , for example , stone in the Lake District . |
| 5 | That choice should not be limited to ’ the way we have always done it ’ or by the organisation 's view of what it should be delivering . |
| 6 | Getting on with what you should be doing that can only see a few people doing that who are actually getting on with what they should have been doing while you are waiting . |
| 7 | He 's seriously deficient in what he should be learning cos he should know that at least . |
| 8 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 9 | It needed an effort to turn to Jill , to force her mind back to what she should be doing . |
| 10 | Once this happens , it is no longer God who is over us , judging us by his Word , but we who are over God , using our god-concepts to justify what we are doing and to make judgements on what he should be doing . |
| 11 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 12 | He felt impotent , uncertain about what he should be doing , what was expected of him . |
| 13 | My mother has fixed ideas about what I should be teaching them , what schools they should attend and the clothes they wear . |
| 14 | There were lessons all around me about what I should be doing , where I should be going , but I chose to ignore them . |
| 15 | I was worried about what I should be saying , or about what Gilbert would think I should — or should n't — be saying . |
| 16 | Erm and you know and I the thing that erm used to worry me maybe sometimes , was the acceptance of this as what they should be having . |
| 17 | For what we should be doing is taking a bit of the real world and imagining it existing while the rest is blocked off , and the activities of a postman in the real world involve this sort of belief . |
| 18 | Use it for what it should be used for . |