Example sentences of "[vb past] they should [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 2 | They felt they should either bring in new blood or sell the company . |
| 3 | Thus when they flew up to Balmoral for the first time after his birth , the entire family travelled together , despite the merchants of doom who insisted they should never fly together in the same plane lest it crash and kill both heir and second-in-line to the throne . |
| 4 | Zuwaya said they should not watch television together ; sons should not smoke in their father 's presence , nor try to wheedle or coax money from them ; and mostly they did not do those things . |
| 5 | He said they should not try to camouflage the block vote — ‘ we should not try to paint a smile on the face of the monster ’ . |
| 6 | She had complained about the waste , and said they should n't have to burn books to keep warm ; it offended her . |
| 7 | One of the high-heid yins wanted to have 20 gondolas , but another councillor said they should only get a male and a female and breed them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If they do n't meet the standards which the Government set they should n't have a licence , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But she never complained , nor suggested they should not go . |