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Example sentences for "should get"

  • Laidley's Ponds, but we halted short of them, and received visits from a great many of the natives during the afternoon, who came to us with their families, a circumstance which led me to hope that we should get on very well with them.

  • I had little hope of finding water, and doubted in the event of disappointment whether we should get any of the horses back to the Fish-pond, the nearest water in our rear.

  • Nadbuck had assured me on the 9th that if the bullocks did not put out their tongues we should get to Laidley's Ponds that day, but I hardly anticipated it myself, although I was aware we could not be many miles from them.

  • Night after night the tunes followed each other in regular routine till I thought I should get them on the brain.

  • It was curious that up here amongst the pigmy Negritos I should get a pigmy hawk.

  • But it might be well that before he saw her he should get hold of information that might have the appearance of real evidence.

  • Couldn't you manage for me that I should get them on paying 50 per cent, down?

  • I replied that I should get out in spite of them all.

  • I did not much like to take him, lest I should get into a quarrel with the Spaniard, and said to Ascanio: “I do not want to have you, for fear of offending your master.

  • My mind was made up to quit Ferrara without fail that very day; but the Duke’s attentive chamberlain arranged with Messer Alberto that I should get no horses then.

  • The good fellow said that, if I did not take them, I should get no other horses in Padua, and should have to make my journey on foot.

  • And now I thought myself pretty well freighted, and began to think how I should get to shore with them, having neither sail, oar, nor rudder; and the least capful of wind would have overset all my navigation.

  • I am afraid I should get as tired of the club as I am of society, Colonel.

  • It is certain that we should get into a bad scrape for boarding and burning a vessel in Haytian waters, but that is all the harm he could do us.

  • I should get it done in half the time if I were present to push things on.

  • In that way he would get rid of us from here, and would calculate that we should get tired of following the brigantine in time, or that she would be able to give us the slip, and would then make for some place where he could join her again.

  • It is time I should get my breakfast, as I wish to transact some business before going to court.

  • There would be no occasion for them to be held, and we should get confident.

  • Well, you could do that if by any chance I should get tired; then I could give a shout, and you could haul on the rope.

  • We should get on a lot faster with these than with only pickaxes.

  • I should not draw pay, but I should be in their service, and the time would count, which would be a great pull, and I should get my passage for nothing.

  • He said that he still felt poorly, but that he hoped he should get round.

  • I knew that I should get a wetting by doing so, for the weather still continued very bad, but I don’t care much for a wetting provided I have a good roof, a good fire, and good fare to betake myself to afterwards.

  • You know we had arranged to hire a vehicle, and that I should get a horse when I joined; but I think now we may as well buy the horses at once, for of course you will be mounted, too.

  • I should be very glad if you were going with me, but at the same time I own that I do not think we should get through.

  • No doubt I should get into a row over it, if it were known; but as these fellows are not likely ever to fire a shot against the French, and it is of importance that mine should be able to shoot well, I didn't hesitate to do it.

  • People may think she did it for the best, lest he should get drunk.

  • It was agreed that my brother should proceed to Italy to get his doctor's degree, that he should get married on his return, and take his wife with him to Pomerania.

  • Jan, I can't stop talking to you all night, I should get no more fun.

  • I should get my face chapped irretrievably.

  • It was Lionel who had found means for all--for his expenses, his voyage; for a purse when he should get to Australia.

  • I only asked her what was to become of the work, and how I should get a clean shirt to put on.

  • Tisn't long enough to go to the hammer pond, nor yet to hunt snakes, because we should get so interested that we should forget to come back.

  • I think if I ever gave up everything for one man I should get to rely on him so utterly that when he wasn't with me any sort of contact with other people would make me vague.

  • I should get caught in the web of the meditation.

  • Tell him the man I want to defend hasn't a chance, and that's why I'm particularly anxious he should get off.

  • He wished to eat her up, but as he heard the woodman Hugh's axe at work close by, he was afraid to touch her, for fear she should cry out and he should get killed.

  • I knew that I should get a wetting by doing so, for the weather still continued very bad, but I don’t care much for a wetting provided I have a good roof, a good fire and good fare to betake myself to afterwards.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arrived here; for want; political liberty; should arrive; should certainly; should endeavor; should endeavour; should first; should hope; should know; should meet; should move; should perhaps; should prefer; should prove; should remember; should seek; should still; should strive; should they; should think you would; should very much like; should worry; shouldst thou; thine enemies; transitional forms