Example sentences of "i should [vb infin] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's awfully kind of you , and I should love to come for a couple of days , if I may . |
| 2 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 3 | For the purpose of this book , I should like to think of a smallholding as any parcel of agricultural land of up to ( say ) 100 acres , organized to be worked by one or two people , without paid labour , and through which they can make part or the whole of their living . |
| 4 | To close , I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man . |
| 5 | In that connection , I should like to quote from a letter that the Secretary of State wrote to the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) who was concerned — rightly so — about a letter that a tenant in his constituency had received from Grand Metropolitan Estates . |
| 6 | I should recommend waiting for a gentler age than that in which we are condemned for a while to dwell . |
| 7 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 8 | An exasperated Josh Gifford claimed — with much justification — that ‘ I should have won by a furlong . |