Example sentences of "should [vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should want to use him in a completely different context , of course … |
| 2 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 3 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 4 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 5 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 6 | ‘ If I have to look at you , ’ Aunt Emily said without rancour , ‘ I should like to see you in a new dress . |
| 7 | but I should like to examine it for a little longer . |
| 8 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 9 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 10 | ‘ Someone should have shut you in a hospital for the criminally insane and thrown away the key . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I should have heeded it as a warning , though , querida , ’ he rasped throatily . |
| 12 | Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't . |
| 13 | That should have alerted me to the fact that Dr Tom Courtney was not as he seemed . |
| 14 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
| 16 | ‘ I should have warned you about the crush . ’ |
| 17 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 18 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |
| 19 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 20 | But then we should have got we we sh We should have done it on the way there , but we forget . |
| 21 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 22 | yeah , we should have to put you on the book |
| 23 | I should have asked you into the house to dry it out ! ’ |
| 24 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 25 | When we settled down we played some tremendous football and maybe should have sneaked it in the end . |
| 26 | It is ironic that reforms intended to increase efficiency by introducing market disciplines should have undermined them in the one sector in which they already existed . |
| 27 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 28 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 29 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw you struggling with it ; you should have left it in the Range Rover — I would have lifted it out for you . ’ |