Example sentences of "should say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why you should say ‘ NO ’ to drugs ! |
| 2 | It 's not the sort of thing the son of an important man should say . ’ |
| 3 | Don , knowing he should say something , managed ‘ The horse is crooked . ’ |
| 4 | We should say that their thoughts are captured by salient information where they should be centrally directed , inhibited and co-ordinated . |
| 5 | Tallis argues that people talk of ‘ signifieds ’ , when they should say ‘ referents ’ ; there is nothing new or unfamiliar in the idea of verbal signs having multiple or even clashing references , and they have long been exploited by poets and punsters , as Tallis does in the title of his book . |
| 6 | It is , nevertheless , interesting that Norris should say , in passing , of Nietzsche ; ‘ there are many competing versions of Nietzsche , none possessing any absolute claim to articulate the ‘ truth' ’ of his text , but all of them — and this is Derrida 's point — made possible by something in the logic , the syntax or the structural resources of his writing . ’ |
| 7 | Last season it improved by , I should say , 50 per cent . |
| 8 | Or perhaps I should say , ‘ Another of the Black Sumatras has done it ’ — for our three sooty chickens of this exotic breed are indistinguishable from one another , and we can not be sure which of them has excelled itself . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me for saying so but in East Prussia — Poland , I should say ! — we had our pick of game . |
| 10 | Your remarks on the Masefieldian lines go to the root of the matter — I should say the bad Masefieldian lines for in some points one would not in the least be ashamed to have learned from him … |
| 11 | But , as Mr Gorbachev said at his Malta press conference , ‘ in order to remain realists , we should say that history decides the processes and fates on the European continent , and also the fates of those two [ German ] states . ’ |
| 12 | But , as Mr Gorbachev said at his Malta press conference , ‘ in order to remain realists , we should say that history decides the processes and fates on the European continent , and also the fates of those two [ German ] states . ’ |
| 13 | Under it , no journalist should use the expression ‘ terrorist ’ — the correct term is militant , freedom fighter or mujaheddin ; no journalist should say that the Panthic Committee , a confederation of terrorist outfits , is based in Pakistan . |
| 14 | Regulators should say no . |
| 15 | The legislature should say yes to this . |
| 16 | General Remarks : I should say quite the ablest in the form considering his age . |
| 17 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 18 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 19 | It seemed that she should say something , for Isabel would let the meal run on in total silence , as every meal now ran , until Kathleen feared that she might scream . |
| 20 | Mrs Knelle 's garden — or perhaps I should say ‘ grounds ’ — meandered gently down to the narrow lakeside road . |
| 21 | ‘ This , ’ said Jan taking a seat on top of a rolled up patterned carpet , ‘ was Kylie Minogue 's bedroom carpet — or Charlene 's , I should say . ’ |
| 22 | He should say this because what his campaign needs is the idea that something new is going to come from re-electing the Tories — not just more of the same , however admirable that may be . |
| 23 | I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night . |
| 24 | Or perhaps I should say , a player and a half . |
| 25 | I should say it demonstrably does more harm than good . |
| 26 | Or I should say , Nevil and I have some news . ’ |
| 27 | Not that I should say so , encourage trespassers , wildlifers , terrifying the poor brutes out of their wits . |
| 28 | I should say , really , that you could live just how you wanted there , according to certain rules . |
| 29 | I should say here that O was a grown man , a strong and handsome man . |
| 30 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |