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Example sentences for "should find"

  • He replied that I must follow the path up the hill towards the house, behind which I should find a road which would lead me through the wood to PentrĂ© Dwr.

  • I question whether I should find any in Iceland forming part of the vernacular.

  • Further, in these days I should find my heart to shut itself up against the Lord, and against his holy Word.

  • The Princess Sophia desired me to send her Miss Gomme, whom she said I should find in my own room.

  • He is entangled; but, in himself, if he should find no other objection to it, he has at least too much taste for such a revolution.

  • She told me, the next moment, of les spectacles I should find at Southampton, and asked me what she might expect at Bath of public amusement and buildings.

  • I would not pretend it was diminished; I determined he should find me as frank as heretofore, and abscond, or abide, as his nerves stood the firmness.

  • I should find it harder to deal with her there even than here," continued Trevelyan.

  • But the world was before me; I had seen but little of it; my own feelings assured me genius and virtue had a real existence, and sometime or another I should find them.

  • I am at present in search of a distant relation: whom if I should find, and find him such as my present hopes and past knowledge have pictured him, I shall be one of the happiest of men.

  • My ready compliance with the first act of deceit, that he had required from me, had not given him reason to suspect he should find me more scrupulous than many others, whom he had made subservient to his purposes.

  • Mr. Eyre again preceded us to the Rufus, with Kenny and Tenbury; for although we had been disappointed in seeing any natives at Lake Bonney, it was hardly to be doubted but that we should find a considerable number at Lake Victoria.

  • I was truly thankful that we had thus fallen upon them, and considering how much our further success depended on their continuance, I began to hope that we should find them a permanent feature in the country.

  • That I should find myself in the absurd position of a man entrusted with the direct personal government of half-a-dozen young ladies was even "more truly spoke than meant.

  • We were glad when the soldiers announced that it was necessary to encamp there; as we should find no other habitations for more than twenty miles.

  • We stopped under an oak-tree to take breakfast; but there was no water; and two Turks, who were resting while their horses grazed in the meadow, told us we should find a good spring half a mile further.

  • Then I gave way, liking you well and thinking that I should find rest, as indeed I do; thinking also that I should be wealthy and able to shut that villain's mouth with gold.

  • If we could question that wonderful creature we should find that it thought and talked of nothing but the odours of the field.

  • We should no longer look upon London then as if it were a sort of Bradshaw's Guide: we should find it as fascinating as a fairy tale, as full of human interest as a Canterbury Pilgrimage.

  • We should find that it had a range of experience in that realm beyond our wildest imaginings.

  • But my hope was, that if I stood along this coast till I came to that part where the English traded, I should find some of their vessels upon their usual design of trade, that would relieve and take us in.

  • I thought I should find you in the museum painting, but here you are, idling in this pretty alley, and in the evening you'll tell us you've been working all day.

  • Don't ask me if I believe that I should find a nymph to love me; one doesn't know what one believes, I only know that I am unhappy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should find" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    should advise; should appeare; should arrive; should cease; should choose; should die; should endeavour; should exist; should fail; should get; should give; should look; should lose; should make; should need; should never; should not; should only; should pray; should probably; should receive; should remain; should return; should seeme; should speak; special meeting