Example sentences of "he should be [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pascoe is back on Wearside after a four-month loan spell with Swansea and Roker No 2 Ferguson said : ‘ He should be bashing on the door to get into this side . |
| 2 | Mr Davies did not contest an application by the aggrieved client , Mr Parsons , that he should be struck off the roll of solicitors following the reduction on taxation of a grossly inflated and inaccurate litigation bill from £197,000 to £67,000 . |
| 3 | In the case of a prisoner whose tariff does not exceed 20 years , these representations will not be relevant to the tariff but only to the question whether he should be detained beyond the end of his tariff period because of the danger he is thought to pose . |
| 4 | The Session had been told that " he had gone in company with some others and killed a deer in Jura " and that he " unnessarily frequented a public house " and decided that he should be admonished before the Session . |
| 5 | The connection was especially good , almost as if they were face to face , and Zen found himself resentful that he should be deprived of the usual screen of interference on an occasion when he could find nothing to say . |
| 6 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 7 | Their concern was that in September , when he should be moving into the second year infants with his age cohort , he would be far behind . |
| 8 | A second suggestion made by the guardian ad litem is that he should be re-appointed on the question of contact between the child and the mother , and that the court should adjourn that question so that there would be a continuing issue relating to contact and the guardian ad litem could make an application for contact to be brought to an end if he felt that the rehabilitation process was failing . |
| 9 | ‘ Execution of his duty ’ means that he should be acting in the protection of life and property . |
| 10 | When he finally named seven people he was told he should be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear . |
| 11 | The price intellectuals pay is that they are dependent on the government for both professional and financial recognition , since ‘ the most important definition of an intellectual is that he should be recognised by the government as such ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 428 ) . |
| 12 | Suppose by mistake or accident he fails to repay on the day named , is it fair that he should be held to the terms of the deed ? |
| 13 | He should be grappling with the problem of how to stay alive , but instead could think of nothing but the problem of Jess . |
| 14 | ‘ He should be landing in the next half-hour , comrade . ’ |
| 15 | It was on the cards that he should be drawn into the circle of dissent . |
| 16 | No one suggests he should be left to the mercy of mad killers , but if he 's really on the run he should be sheltering in some safe house , not bopping around town . |
| 17 | The cases do suggest , however , that where a director does possess a relevant expertise he should be judged by the standards of a competent practitioner of it , presumably on the ground that he has expressly or impliedly held himself out as being appropriately qualified . |
| 18 | It continues : in his nineteenth year … considering the uncertain term of human life , and the fearful end especially before the fleshly and the worldly , he took thought , by the inspiration of God , providently concerning himself ( remembering his end ) , lest he should be taken in the snares of sin . |
| 19 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA 's playwright-turned-politician , Mr Vaclav Havel , moved a step nearer to the presidency yesterday when the country 's Communist Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , recommended that he should be installed by the end of the year . |
| 20 | Scotland as a nation will determine its own sovereignty whether he agrees to it or not and he should be talking to the Scottish Constitutional Convention about the matter . |
| 21 | In support of one of these views , James Michie ( 1964 : 9 ) writes in his translator 's preface " It is better that Horace should be " done down " into English than that he should be undone by the gradual disappearance of Latin from our culture " . |
| 22 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
| 23 | That person 's backside should be kicked and he should be put on the first Air Canada flight home . |