Example sentences of "we should [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps we should pass on to the home-made cakes , ’ said Mervyn . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we should go through to the dining-room now . |
| 4 | We are democrats and accept that until we have convinced people by the force of our argument , we should go along with the view of the majority of the organisations of which we are a member . |
| 5 | It is a ludicrous situation and we should go back to the drawing board and start afresh . ’ |
| 6 | I think we should go back by the paths . |
| 7 | We know that if we started to challenge everything we should end up like the centipede that became paralysed through analysis of the movement of its many legs . |
| 8 | After one alarmed glance at her apoplectic face , Mr Loveitt said smoothly : ‘ I think we should get back to the facts . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 11 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 12 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 13 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 14 | We were on a lonely stretch of road just outside London : it was late in the afternoon , darkness was about to fall and we were arguing about whether we should hurry on to the city or stay at some roadside tavern for the night . |