Example sentences of "[v-ing] what [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Reynolds came to visit her husband , the staff nurse spent some time with them both explaining what they should expect immediately after the operation and she arranged for Mrs Reynolds to telephone the ward the following afternoon . |
| 2 | Zenaida at last spoke , deliberating what she should do ; Carmellina clutched harder , she knew how much bosses love flattery and crawling . |
| 3 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 4 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |
| 5 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Florrie and me , we were wondering what we should do . |
| 7 | Jack hesitated , wondering what he should do , and Ray Shepherd said impatiently , ‘ Come on . |
| 8 | As he stood there , wondering what he should do , he caught a faint rustle — a movement , somewhere behind him . |
| 9 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 10 | There are no hard and fast rules governing what you should ask for when putting together your wedding gift list . |
| 11 | I 'm doing what I should have done from the start . ’ |
| 12 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 13 | So erm you know that 's th what I 'm really talking about is more a question of the process of erm career choice , than it is saying what you should do . |
| 14 | After a good few minutes , I shattered this silence by asking what we should do . |
| 15 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 16 | If you have never rented property before , it is worth knowing what you should expect from the contract that you are undertaking . |
| 17 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 18 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 19 | Instinct told her what that ‘ something ’ was and that night she talked until the small hours with her flatmates discussing what she should do . |
| 20 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |