Example sentences of "him [pron] should [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Not until Monday , I said to him I should move , get moved in this week .
2 I told him I should have to publish Sir Hubert 's disclaimer , and warned him that an unedited publication would endanger implementation of an appointment from which Burmans expected so much , and would also lead to an unhappy relationship between the paper and the government .
3 Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to .
4 She was screaming at him now , that with a man like him she should have found another , her life had been nothing but work , work , work , worry , worry , worry , and now he made out she was a common whore , when she had n't had an instant 's pleasure in her livelong days .
5 Those closest to him who should have been too frightened to behave as they did include his father , but they also include his sisters , who struck out for themselves in a fashion which has him siding with his father .
6 Vortigern consulted magicians who told him he should build a stronghold in Wales but as his workers set to work on a hill in Snowdonia their building materials sank into the earth .
7 Tom did very well at the Guildhall where nobody told him he should stop singing , a piece of good news he passed on triumphantly to his grandmother .
8 But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man .
9 Shortly afterwards he went missing in the cauldron of the Ruhr , I only wanted to tell him he should have got more than 30 bob a piece for them .
10 He had been a crusader in the north , he had made devout pilgrimage to Jerusalem , a soothsayer had promised him he should die there when his hour came upon him .
11 Now his family are telling him he should divorce me .
12 Mrs Wilson had told him he should get out of the house more .
13 ‘ Everyone kept telling him he should win .
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