Example sentences of "he should think " in BNC.

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1 Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me .
2 If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it .
3 She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else .
4 I knew what he was getting at , of course , and I was so hurt that he should think he had to approach me in such a roundabout fashion — as if I was a terrible , uncharitable woman who had to be coaxed into a simple act of kindness — that I suggested it myself at once , though it was really the last thing I wanted .
5 She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him .
6 It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels .
7 He should think again .
8 Bathsheba was about to ask why he should think that , when she remembered the valentine .
9 Why he should think there was anything special about his troubles , Zvi could n't imagine .
10 Funny he should think you might be on holiday .
11 She needed distance between them as she fought to smother a treacherous joy that he should think her beautiful .
12 ‘ Of course I am ! ’ she cried heatedly , quite aghast that he should think otherwise .
13 Although why he should think that , she could n't imagine — unless women were in the habit of following him home .
14 ‘ They seem to think I should stand on my own two feet — which is only right and proper , ’ she added hastily in case he should think she was whingeing .
15 He should think for a moment what that means .
16 He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions .
17 ‘ Oh ! ’ she gasped , and unable to believe that he should think such a thing , let alone say it , she was not sure she did not lose some of her colour .
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