Example sentences of "[prep] if [pers pn] should " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 2 | Sanchez took a step nearer to Culley as if they should lower their voices . |
| 3 | She spoke as if she should have known about more than the dying town . |
| 4 | It made her feel as if she should be sharpening her sword in preparation . |
| 5 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 6 | Rosa laughed and looked at her as if she should know . |
| 7 | Still , she felt as if she should feel … some remorse . |
| 8 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 9 | I WAS SAD to hear that ‘ Gaffer ’ ( Walter Mimpriss ) is dead , but sadder still that his obituary ( by John MacDougall , 25 September ) did not evoke the memory of a tall , lean , gangly man , with bent shoulders , who always looked as if he should have cow-dung on his theatre wellies , writes Marion Crouchman . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you sure , though , ’ the man continued , desperately , ‘ a fine young woman , rather on the thin side but a lady , no doubting it , and a terrible young scoundrel , a thief of a man who looked as if he should be hanged . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Sounds as if he should be here . |
| 12 | He felt somehow responsible for the way she was behaving , as if he should have spotted it sooner , caught on sooner . |
| 13 | At first sight , Weir may look as if he should be jumping at four in an LS Lowry Matchstick XV but the gangling Scot is an awful lot tougher than he appears . |
| 14 | The best new piece of equipment at the Royal Welsh Show this week suitable for upland farming conditions sounded as if it should have four legs rather than four wheels . |
| 15 | It looked as if it should have broken , amongst the pebbles in Adam 's bag . |
| 16 | Height sounds as if it should be pronounced hate . |
| 17 | Sounds as if it should be double O it 's it 's J U I C E |
| 18 | It sounds as if it should have a K usually most words if you 're not sure and they start with a c sound put a C . |
| 19 | My head rang with that particular vibration of accidental pain , a tintinnabulating effect that always feels as if it should have preceded its cause — by way of a warning . |
| 20 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 21 | ‘ I know ; sometimes I feel as if I should like to knock all their heads together . ’ |
| 22 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 23 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 24 | [ I was ] so oppressed by a sense of sin that I felt almost as if I should die ! |
| 25 | ‘ I feel as if I should , ’ she admitted . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's ridiculous , I know , but I feel as if I should know her , as if I 've seen her before somewhere . ’ |
| 27 | I asked about the baby and she looked at me as if I should know . ’ |
| 28 | Like SuperCalc these are n't pictorial in content , but at least the shadowed button look makes them appear as if you should click then with a mouse — which is more than can be said for either of the other two packages . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end I held them against my side under my arm with the suspenders dangling down and some woman said , ‘ Eh , girl them suspenders look as if you should be milking them . ’ |