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Example sentences for "should tell"

  • If I were you, I should tell her of that old matter.

  • She had insisted that he should tell no one of their life together.

  • All the way down to Reading he debated whether he should tell Fleur of that boy's father's death.

  • Lady M'Leod wondered he should tell this.

  • If I should tell at a tea table in London, that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat, how they'd shudder, and what a fool they'd think me to expose myself to such danger.

  • Beside the common incidents of life, it should tell us his studies, his mode of living, the means by which he attained to excellence, and his opinion of his own works.

  • I should tell you, that he fainted away three times at the sight, and I twice and a half at the repetition of it.

  • But he was a sly old fox was Mr Tombe, and was considering all this time how much it would be well that he should tell Mr Vavasor, and how much it would be well that he should conceal.

  • I should tell you, Mr Palliser, that I have never seen Lady Midlothian, though she is my far-away cousin.

  • Of course, if it were in the king's apartment, I should tell you, I suppose.

  • If you were a stranger, I should tell you--I will tell you nothing at all.

  • It needs not that I should tell all, for my story is not much concerned with this encounter.

  • If I should tell you to will any certain thing, it would do no good.

  • Khayme would give me no embarrassment; I was sure of his full sympathy; but I was hampered by a doubt as to how much I should tell him of the necessity which prompted the demand for my work.

  • Biggs, I should tell you, was with me when this happened, and mighty curious he was about it all.

  • The fat Baron, I should tell you, did not give up the hunt until near twelve o'clock; but when he had searched every thicket within a mile or more, he came back to us and deliberately made himself comfortable inside his car.

  • And he charged him that he should tell no man, but: Go, shew thyself to the priest and offer for thy cleansing according as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

  • And the chief priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that, if any man knew where he was, he should tell, that they might apprehend him.

  • The tribune therefore dismissed the young man, charging him that he should tell no man that he had made known these things unto him.

  • There is Helmina von Chezy--but before I speak of her, I should tell you of her famous grandmother, Anna Louisa Karshin, though she belonged to the last century.

  • I should think any man an idiot who began to make soft speeches to me, and I should tell him so.

  • In the first place, I should tell all my secrets, and I maintain that verse is the proper medium for such revelations.

  • So we agreed that on some fair night when the Astronomer should tell us that there was to be a fine show in the skies, we would make up a party and go to the Observatory.

  • I should tell him of the ocean steamers, the railroads that spread themselves like cobwebs over the civilized and half-civilized portions of the earth, the telegraph and the telephone, the photograph and the spectroscope.

  • What if I should tell my last, my very recent experience with the other sex?

  • I thought so too;--but as she said it, it was best that I should tell you.

  • Her mother and those lawyers had been mistaken, and it was well that he should tell her so at once.

  • But at present my case is in the hands of my lawyers, and they have advised that I should tell no one in London where I live.

  • I should tell you at once that he thoroughly agrees with the eighth commandment.

  • You will perceive that somebody has been at work inventing a story to do you a mischief, and I think it right that I should tell you.

  • If he interfered with me I should tell him to go to bed," said Quaverdale.

  • She had perceived that her father had something on his mind which it would be necessary that he should tell.

  • But that he should tell such a lie as this about the county is more than a man can endure.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    duty bound; should arrive; should believe; should call; should cease; should come; should exist; should fail; should give; should hate; should imagine; should judge; should like; should live; should perhaps; should probably; should prove; should seek; should seem; should seeme; should sleep; should suffer; should they; should walk; shouldst thou; will see