Example sentences of "know that [pers pn] should [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't know that we should Do we all do we want to go together
2 So she smiled on and stood there and in exasperation Mrs Browning said , ‘ I do not know that we should continue this discussion , Wilson .
3 But there is something you do n't know that you should know .
4 How does the bird manage to identify part of the scene as a fish , or as food , in the first place , and how is it thereupon led to take appropriate action ( that is , how does it know that it should dive , irrespective of how steep the dive should be ) ?
5 These days many people know that they should bend their knees when they bend down to pick up an object , but this is only half the story .
6 And it does n't appeal to me but I know that I should do it .
7 25–8 A party of young and old people came to Port Ellen from Ardbeg for the day knowing that they should return on the " Islay " on its way to Port Askaig .
8 He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy .
9 A series of studies by Patterson and her colleagues ( e.g. , Patterson and Kister , 1981 ) hypothesized that if children knew that they should ask questions when they were uncertain of a message 's adequacy , then they would have a procedure for resolving communication failure .
10 We knew that we should have to find this for ourselves , as the Billeting Office would not be prepared to move us again , nor lend a very sympathetic ear to our complaints .
11 We were a little discomfited by the request , but agreed to accede to it this once ; but when we realised that it was to be a regular arrangement , we knew that we should have to move again , for over and above the inconvenience of being put out of our room , we were sure that our landlady did not even change the sheets .
12 He knew that he should slow and seek shelter .
13 Trent knew that he should do something .
14 Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it .
15 He knew that he should discuss her grandfather with Mariana but remained frightened of hurting her , or of being the immediate instrument of her hurt .
16 She knew that she should extend some kind of apology herself , but she knew equally well that she had no intention of doing any such thing .
17 Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime !
18 Folly knew that she should get up and leave .
19 She knew that she should have breasts , that she should be menstruating ; that , judging from the giggled conversations of her friends , she should have at least wanted to find out about love and sex .
20 She knew that she should have won and so would everyone else .
21 She also knew that she should have reported the foul to Mike , who would then make an official complaint to the umpire , but she was too angry .
22 She knew that she should have resented his touch , but now it comforted her .
23 I knew that I should succeed .
24 For myself I knew that I should go on finding greater and greater depths in Shakespeare as I grew older , and that I should die and still not have found the bottom .
25 I did not want to leave my sad family , but we all knew that I should go .
26 I knew that I should have to make a decision .
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