Example sentences of "i should have [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh , you think I should have a kept woman like Ma — not very modern , that .
2 ‘ I never thought I should have a friend to play with and a pony to ride , Aunty ! ’ she said happily , as she got ready to go out and call for Angela Yatton .
3 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 ’ .
4 But if I had to choose a hunter for work in a particular type of country I should have a pretty good idea which would be the best animal to pick , though I might not be able to tell you how I went about it . ’
5 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 .
6 ‘ I think I should have a talk to Mary , she 's got so many problems with her marriage . ’
7 Well the thing to do maybe I should have a word with him .
8 Flavia said happily , ‘ It would be quite wonderful , I should have a family to come home to in the holidays all my life . ’
9 I should have a print for you in a day or two .
10 A contract engineer called to my machine at work said that I should have a least eight inches of space all around it to prevent it from overheating or , if that did not solve the problem , it would need a new hard disk .
11 LADY DAVERS : Did I not tell you , Jackey , that I should have a wit to talk to ?
12 121 , 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 .
13 It was Denis 's idea that Jack and I should have a medical .
14 ‘ Thought you and I should have a talk , Tod . ’
15 If I come to you at three months with a P T A tumour , that 's grade one or two , how long would you be er willing to accept that I should have a recurrence before you treat it ?
16 ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’
17 We 've prefaced that and the , the heading , I should have a copy , what ?
18 I should have a cup of tea .
19 I should have a bet
20 Er do you think I should have a bath now or should I
21 ‘ I 'm sure if this misguided individual is in the habit of flying on these things , I should have no difficulty whatsoever . ’
22 ‘ If this matter rested solely upon the question of the best interests of the children I should have no doubt whatever that their welfare would be better served by their remaining in England in order that their future be determined by the High Court here .
23 ‘ If a bank manager saw fit to show me round a vault containing safe deposits and I found a gold bracelet on the floor , I should have no doubt that the bank had a better title than I , and the reason is the manifest intention to exercise a very high degree of control .
24 I was content to be on my own , glad that I should have no need to accommodate myself to a fellow-countryman , that any decisions in the days ahead would be entirely mine .
25 I did not feel I should miss his company , and the fact that I should have no fellow-countryman with me to take charge if I fell sick or was wounded did not worry me , since I had every confidence in Omar .
26 I should have the blood work through by then , and that would help .
27 Erm but I think that I , what I felt was that I should have the right to be consulted and that every reasonable effort should be made to consult me .
28 Which means I should have the last one does n't it ?
29 But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards .
30 I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon .
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