Example sentences of "we should stop " in BNC.

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1 I suppose what I 'm really saying is that we should stop for a second each time we leap to elevate some young lad or lass to godlike status for a fifteen second guitar solo , and think about Paul McCartney penning Yesterday at age 23 .
2 We should stop drinking German wine and beer and stop eating their sausages .
3 For if the former , compared to the latter , are indeed quite different types of people , then maybe we should stop looking to our political authorities and criminal justice system for protection from those beneath us in impoverished urban neighbourhoods .
4 If you 've got a heart condition we should stop now .
5 Now we know the dangers of it , surely it 's more important than ever that we should stop it .
6 I replied rather coldly that I had not drunk alcohol since 1939 , and that it had been my hope that we should stop somewhere where I could wash up generally , relieve myself and have a little rest .
7 Meanwhile we should stop pretending that we live in a golden age of literary biography , an art form that all too frequently seems to be founded not so much on spite , as on a fundamental lack of interest in its subject . ’
8 I think that we should stop this farce , here and now .
9 wonder as well , whether some of us should be putting as much energy into training teachers , and perhaps we should stop doing that and just concentrate on our own staff .
10 ‘ I feel , Mr Multhrop , ’ Auguste interjected in the effort to convert unspeakably thoughts in concrete action , ‘ we should stop work in the kitchen . ’
11 We should stop being defensive .
12 If something does n't improve the lot of the membership , then we should stop doing it . ’
13 And nowhere on the advertising hoardings aimed at would-be green motorists , do we see suggestions that we should stop buying cars .
14 I was particularly taken by a good phrase used by the hon. Member for Hartlepool , who suggested that we should stop using the word ’ joyriding ’ — none of us in the House does so any longer , except in unspoken inverted commas .
15 ‘ I think we should stop , Sesostris , ’ Andrus squeaked uneasily .
16 Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? "
17 Perhaps we should stop castigating individual managers , coaches and players and take a long , hard look at the structure of our sporting institutions .
18 Right , I think we should stop now and get them out of there .
19 We should stop at any one place
20 er we should stop this thing while we was pouring that out
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