Example sentences of "i should [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
| 2 | Perhaps I should leave the last word to my son . |
| 3 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
| 4 | ‘ She told me she always put the most beautiful girls next to Bernard when setting the table for a party , and that I should do the same , because you want to give the best to the man you love . ’ |
| 5 | As a Magistrate I think I should advise the Noble Lord , Lord Tebbit , that most crime is indeed local based , despite the prevalence of bicycles in this upwardly mobile society of ours . |
| 6 | Department numbers and how you spend it so you must have to fill this card in I should think The only the only department is the cosmetics that 's not we 'll ask when we get there . |
| 7 | and then it 's the semi-finals so obviously I should think the top four clubs will go into the knock out . |
| 8 | Well I should think the pink one look er hairbands apparently . |
| 9 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
| 10 | ’ I should watch the Black Magic if I were you , Miss Lightbody , ’ I joked , noticing the familiar colouring of the box peeping from the top of one of her carrier bags . |
| 11 | If this is difficult , I should eat the easy bit after Reggane . ’ |
| 12 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
| 13 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
| 14 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
| 15 | I believed I should consider the Anglican Church not fully Christian in that it discriminated against women ; though I wanted to worship there . |
| 16 | Having regard to some of the evidence before me , I should notice the following towards the bottom of pp. 649–650 : |
| 17 | ‘ Personally I should find the endless cups of tea one of the more trying aspects of church life , ’ said Gervase . |
| 18 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |
| 19 | well I should say the like er |
| 20 | And erm I should say the average family was around about four , four mark , four and five children mark . |
| 21 | Well Street was really I should say the only industrial part of Caldmore or Palfry , cos there was Harveys had a factory up there and there was a little bit of factory work in Street , there was actually a small factory on the corner of Street and Lane , but the factory area was mostly in . |
| 22 | Your remarks on the Masefieldian lines go to the root of the matter — I should say the bad Masefieldian lines for in some points one would not in the least be ashamed to have learned from him … |
| 23 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 24 | I am not confident about how I should take the hon. Gentleman 's concluding remarks , but I shall bear with equanimity what I suspect may be a poisoned chalice . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
| 26 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |
| 27 | Which means I should have the last one does n't it ? |
| 28 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 29 | ‘ No , just trying to decide whether I should take you riding in a horse-drawn carriage through Dyrhaven tomorrow , or whether I should spend the whole day making love to you . ’ |
| 30 | Now I see that I know nothing , only I must not say so for I should lose the good opinion of my neighbours and they would no longer trust me with money for my experiments . |