Example sentences of "[vb -s] he should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taplow is a common traitor and the law says he should burn . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 3 | Mum says he should have shut the door when he went back into the garage and he would n't have been followed . |
| 4 | He says he should have gone straight to prison . |
| 5 | But Aunty Carole says he should notice is n't he ? |
| 6 | Pritchett seems so much older it seems he should have it , but I 'll go for VS Naipaul . |
| 7 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 8 | Ponyboy feels he should become tough to fit in with his friends , but soon realises that by doing this he would never achieve a better life . |
| 9 | She feels he should have realised she had n't meant the things she said . ’ |
| 10 | Except maybe if Hodge is about to go ( in a swap deal for a defender ) , maybe Wilko feels he should have a more versatile midfielder . |
| 11 | Collins ' form has been as stable as his club 's progress has been erratic this season and the player feels he should have represented his country more often than he has done . |
| 12 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 13 | Tony Wright … says it has n't been a good season they have n't batted well … but someone has got to take the blame and he thinks he should stand down and give someone else a chance |
| 14 | ‘ To make him do as I say , not as he thinks he should do . ’ |
| 15 | This one erm he sort of tried hard and put a lot in , thinks he should get full marks but he 's not going to get very much because he 's missed this , he 's not answering that properly |
| 16 | According to the opinion polls , 60% of the electorate thinks he should have gone last August . |
| 17 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 18 | It simply shows that he wo n't adapt — and this again is very unusual — to the demands of different people or circumstances , that he wo n't say what some journalist thinks he should say , that Roger and Kris are wonderful and lovely and it would be a privilege to run with them . |
| 19 | This is particularly true of the company puff wanted because the chairman thinks he should run an advertisement which says no more than " we are jolly good fellows " . |
| 20 | After the bruisings of the first 100 days , the president should have a shrewd idea which issues he should fight for , and which he should cheerfully surrender as lost . |
| 21 | He also admits he should have prevented goals in earlier games against Sheffield United and Arsenal . |
| 22 | He should not get too emotional , moody , tearful or truculent , especially if he ca n't explain why to his own and other people 's satisfaction , and if he does he should feel concerned . |
| 23 | But when he spoke it was not of her but of Peach , how to feed him , what sort of supplements he should have , that although he had had his routine immunizations , he must have a booster at a year old and also an injection against a new sort of feline virus . |
| 24 | If he believes he should make new law democratically , in the spirit of the present legislature or the present climate of popular opinion , he might turn to past decisions as evidence of what the legislature or public is likely to think or want , for example . |
| 25 | Holyfield has watched the fight on video many times and believes he should have won . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , here 's a delightfully low-key set of instrumentals that suggests he should write the score for one of those film noir remakes set in small town America . |
| 27 | Best probably knows he should have Cusworth on board and you have only to look at the magical ( and almost posthumous ) transformation that Best has wrought in Peter Winterbottom 's handling and passing to see what a course in sevens indoctrination can achieve . |
| 28 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |