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Example sentences for "should make"

  • You will understand, I hope, that I should make no inquiry in such a matter, unless I had felt myself warranted in doing so by what you had yourself told me in London.

  • But when a man goes in for it himself, as you have done, he should make up his mind to be useful.

  • When he was offering Isabel the glass of sherry he was telling himself that he would find his opportunity on the morrow,--though now, at that moment, it was impossible that he should make a sign.

  • Knowing your heart, as I do know it, do you imagine that I have spent a day, an hour, for months past, without asking myself what answer I should make to you if the sweet constancy of your nature should bring you again to me?

  • It was not, therefore, surprising that Ferdinand Lopez should volunteer no statements to the old lawyer about money, and that he should make no inquiries.

  • I am engaged in sundry other smaller ventures, all returning profits;--but in such a condition of things it is impossible that I should make a schedule.

  • If I were not very serious at this moment, Duke, I should make an allusion to the--Marines.

  • And they that were in the castle, sent messengers to Tryphon, that he should make haste to come through the desert, and send them victuals.

  • The tabernacle of the testimony was with our fathers in the desert, as God ordained for them, speaking to Moses, that he should make it according to the form which he had seen.

  • Neither did I so despise them that they should be quite consumed: and I should make void my covenant with them.

  • Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured.

  • The old man kept it religiously as a relique, and would not that the Christians in the assemblies, where they chastised themselves, should make a common use of it.

  • That he should make such a remark is indeed strange.

  • Besides, the line of three syllables, as was noticed in the observations on Anapestic Monometer, is often peculiarly uncertain in regard to the measure which it should make.

  • That he should make such a remark, is indeed strange.

  • Me-thinks I should make a pretty page, and hand a chased goblet as gracefully as any monkey that ever bent his knee in a lady's chamber.

  • I think I should make an excellent bargain with him: of course I do not mean that ugly vulgar savage with a fiery tail.

  • I thought it right therefore to do nothing for the present; but I sent Ormond to London, to keep him out of the way of corruption, till I should make up my mind as to further proceedings on the subject.

  • But on this point she would not hear much from him, lest the very fact of her hearing it should make it seem that such a line of conduct were possible to her.

  • If this ill usage came from Clara Desmond herself, I should be the last person to complain of it; and you would be the last person to whom I should make complaint.

  • It certainly was the fact that the house did seem very blank to him now that Clara was gone; and that he looked forward with impatience to the visit which it was so necessary that he should make on the following day to Clady.

  • And I set me to run swift downward into the Land, so that I should make a strong going unto the Pyramid.

  • And I gat me up wearily to go forth into the Night again, that I should make a search for a hot spring, of which I had come past many.

  • And I perceived surely that the time was come when I should make an utter parting from the Great Redoubt; and the thought came very heavy upon me.

  • What we did was to "offer no advice, but" point out that the Egyptian Government should make up their minds what their policy was to be, and carefully consider whether they could afford the cost of putting down the Mahdi.

  • Harcourt wrote that he was unusually dull and stupid: "I feel as if the soul of Northcote had transmigrated into me, and, if only I had a flaxen beard, I am sure I should make one of his Midland speeches to admiration.

  • And since there are so many heights between this place, between us, and that; it should make us admire at the heights of the grace and mercy of God, by which, means is provided to bring us thither.

  • As for female society, if they were ladies, it was expected that, in some form or other, he should make love to them, and he had no sentiment.

  • Instead of making a constitution, he should make a country, and convert his heterogeneous domains into a patriotic dominion.

  • I should make it pay, to begin with; and I should make it pay by making it such a thorough newspaper that every class of people must have it.

  • I knew that with this look in my face I should make my own welcome; and it's cordial even beyond my expectations.

  • Here at the moment when he is wanted we fortunately have sitting by us Anytus, the very person of whom we should make enquiry; to him then let us repair.

  • If we attempted to harmonize or to combine them, we should make out of them, not a system, but the caricature of a system.

  • Having now gotten all things in train, I set me down to work upon one of the arrows; for I was anxious to see what sort of a fist I should make of them, knowing how much would depend upon the balance and truth of the missile.

  • Now, for a while there came no suggestion worthy of notice, until at last there occurred to me a notable idea, and I called out suddenly that we should make a small fire balloon, and float off the line to them by such means.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    quite soft; should advise; should consider; should continue; should endeavor; should happen; should haue; should heal; should hope; should judge; should leave; should live; should meet; should much; should not; should prefer; should probably; should propose; should remain; should serve; should stand; should succeed; should vote; should wish; what good; white soldiers