I suppose," he said, scowling slightly, "that you would much prefer that he should not be the Earl of Dorincourt.
I should prefer he should not be told," she said to Mr. Havisham.
It is better for him that he should not be told until he is much older, and it is far better for the Earl.
But the blindness of love led her to believe what she wanted to be true, and her love was so great that it seemed impossible to her that it should not in return awake an equal love.
But because I have learnt that man is incalculable, I should not at this time of day be so surprised by the news that reached me when in the early autumn I returned to London.
I should not be surprised to learn that he had never seen Strickland in his life, and owed his knowledge of Marseilles to the pages of a magazine.
Surely he should not interfere in even so slight a particular with the "Plan of the Creator," who may have been moving "in a mysterious way his wonders to perform" when he gave the supposedly pessimistic bend to my mind.
We should not attempt to make it fit a preconceived theory, but to make the theory conform to it.
The painter or sculptor who loves his art may be permitted to reproduce in modest pose a naked female figure; but he should not be allowed to force it upon the attention of a mixed multitude.
Second, it should not be given to a foreigner who has no official position in the empire.
The emperor went into the council chamber where they were waiting for him, and they all agreed from what he had seen of Tirant that he should not be moved.
Saying that anyone who was wounded should not sleep so much, they forced their way in and discovered that he was gone.
When he saw her leaving, and that he could not touch her with his hands, he stretched out his leg and put it under her skirt so that his shoe touched her where it should not, and he put his leg between her thighs.
Never was there a finer display of unselfishness than in their eagerness to help her succeed, in their intense nervous anxiety lest she should not make a hit.
Perhaps even I should not stay on if it were not for a silly, weak feeling of obligation--but I can't be sure of that.
I should not stay on with him if he were distasteful to me.
Dressed as the dirty old Jew," he said gaily, "I knew I should not be recognized.
Offer him some ready money, so that he should not fail to give me word the moment the tall Englishman returns.
I know how boys like us live, and so we should not do anything which would make the police angry or make people notice us.
I should not wonder," said the Professor, "if it were broken off from some larger statue, though how such hard material could be so perfectly worked is more than I can understand.
There is no reason why I should not be perfectly candid with you.
Do you know what my darling says to me in my letter?
He stopped that up, and laid down new pipe drains, with a good fall, and properly trapped.
She began almost to live at the Lucases, and to be oftener fatigued than moped.
The operation was neatly performed, and then Lady Cicely was called in.
Those soft blue eyes, and all those natural graces, should not be wasted on the inferior society of Highbury and its connexions.
I should not attempt it, if it were to be the means of inconvenience to the Highbury people, but if you call to mind exactly the present line of the path.
But how sad it is that he should not live at home with his father!
I should not wonder if it were to bring on the declaration.
There were passages in this diary relating to myself which she thought it best that I should not see.
If through any extraordinary circumstance the arrangement should not be made, I think I may be able to get the parties to accept bills at three months.
She asked me in return, if I should not be afraid of a man who had shut me up in a mad-house, and who would shut me up again, if he could?
It is, of course, applicable to the very serious matter now under notice, or I should not allow it to appear in this place.
My daughter knew, you see, how much I have always thought of it, and she was determined that I should not give it up.
Billy was wondering which she herself desired more--that Uncle William should buy the Lowestoft, or that he should not.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
