Example sentences of "[vb past] we should [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Nigel Lawson then proposed we should either scrap SERPS and put nothing in its place or leave the whole issue until the next Parliament .
2 ‘ Well , we thought we should just mention it . ’
3 Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place .
4 The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule .
5 But economics do not determine penal practices in a simple and direct manner ; if they did we should hardly have the extremely wasteful penal system which exists in this country today , with its needlessly and expensively high prison population .
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