Example sentences of "what he should [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is administration , rather than deciding issues or resolving disputes , even though the certifier often has to accept or reject claims by the contractor as to what he should certify for payment . |
| 2 | He will also appreciate having his memory jogged as to what he should record at any given time . |
| 3 | ‘ He came in to the shop and asked me what he should wear on the date . |
| 4 | That evening he devoted to discussing the agreeable question of what he should wear for his triumphant entry into London . |
| 5 | As they arrived , he asked the local candidate , with whom he was travelling , what he should speak about . |
| 6 | Everyone is telling Mr Honecker what he should do , the East and West Germans openly , the Soviets more subtly : ask yourselves why people are leaving and save your country through reform . |
| 7 | Meanwhile speculation is mounting in the West that hardliners are beginning to dictate what he should do , and he is no longer in full control . |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is that Patrick was partly terrified of Peter , who came up behind him and thought he knew better what he should do . |
| 9 | Still , he did not know what he should do tonight . |
| 10 | Harold had already rehearsed what he should do if Dimity had lifted the receiver . |
| 11 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |
| 12 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 13 | Jack hesitated , wondering what he should do , and Ray Shepherd said impatiently , ‘ Come on . |
| 14 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 15 | He had only a few moments to decide on what he should do . |
| 16 | That it was David Mellor , a Major crony , has reinforced fears that this is a prime minister who ca n't judge what he should do with his time . |
| 17 | What he should do is chill out , get a job and pay off his debts , but he does n't . |
| 18 | IBM Corp 's new chief executive is being swamped with gratuitous advice on what he should do to turn the company around , but that coming from Stephen Smith , who has tracked the computer industry for PaineWebber Inc for 11 years , is probably worth more of Gerstner 's attention than most . |
| 19 | For he does not allow that there can be someone who genuinely asks himself what he should do in a moral way , but whose answer is in terms of what is only one of various logically coherent moralities . |
| 20 | As he stood there , wondering what he should do , he caught a faint rustle — a movement , somewhere behind him . |
| 21 | He shuddered and replaced the glasses , before describing how he had spent a sleepless night worrying what he should do and in the morning had made up his mind to tackle MacQuillan again . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend referred to the Chancellor 's views but , when we asked him that question in the Select Committee , it became clear that he was not so much against it in principle as uncertain in his own mind what he should do . |
| 23 | That is what he should do . |
| 24 | You know Van Gogh er , he had a hired woman , and er he definitely thought that was what he should do to actually put all his energies into his painting |
| 25 | Rather , it has been a question of what he should leave out . |
| 26 | What he should acknowledge , however , is that spending is up by more than 50 per cent . |
| 27 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 28 | What he should say is ‘ I have several different kinds of logical object in my document . |
| 29 | He seemed to be weighing up what he should say next when Peter exclaimed , ‘ It 's so hard on Anna . |
| 30 | Accordingly his choices of what he should say and do , and how and when , are his means to conserve and tap the sources of his power . |