Example sentences of "i should [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | If I should plant a tiny seed of love |
2 | If I should plant a tiny seed of love |
3 | Or do you reckon I should wear a white casual |
4 | I should bring a criminal prosecution against you . |
5 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
6 | The American authorities told me that I should make a general election law and arrange that the Korean people rule themselves . |
7 | ‘ You suggested that I should make a fresh statement . ’ |
8 | ‘ I should keep a close eye on your … friend . |
9 | The youngest brother said , " I should like a good Christian girl for a wife . " |
10 | I should like a single room , please . |
11 | He regarded my attainment of ‘ full genitality ’ as the ultimate goal of his therapy and he was determined that I should enjoy a complete cure . |
12 | If I win I should get a top ten rating . |
13 | I practiced my trade , I simplified my life , I was on my way to becoming the " Compleat Airman " , I also felt that I should get an overseas tour out of the way , and was quite pleased when I found my name on the PWR+ ; I then awaited eagerly to learn where . |
14 | ‘ She told me I should find a rich girlfriend . |
15 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
16 | Well I should put a small stake or something in . |
17 | Such was the response from readers who wrote to me with their amazing success stories , that it was decided I should write an extended version of the book and the Complete Hip and Thigh Diet was published last January . |
18 | Well I should take an extra one the more you can get the better that 's what it 's all about is n't it ? |
19 | I should apply a hot antiphlogistine poultice just above the fetlock and alternate with a cold hose on it twice a day . " |
20 | 121 , as to which Parke B. , in Cooper v. Parker ( 1855 ) 15 C.B. 828 , said , ‘ Whenever the question may arise as to whether Down v. Hatcher is good law , I should have a great deal to say against it , ’ yet there certainly are cases in which great judges have treated the dictum in Pinnel 's Case as good law . |
21 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
22 | ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that . |
23 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
24 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
25 | As the date of the audit is not far away I should appreciate an early reply . |
26 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |