Example sentences of "i should [vb infin] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aorta , I should explain for the benefit of our young friend , is the major artery leading from the heart … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps I should send for the doctor ? ’ |
| 4 | I should like for the purposes of this inquiry to reconstruct an average evening , an ordinary evening , a typical evening . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I should work for the B B C should n't I as a news reporter |