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Example sentences for "should only"

  • This room, containing as it does very mixed examples of all the schools, should only be visited after the spectator has obtained some idea of each in other parts of the collection.

  • The last-named, at least, he should only examine in connection with the rest of Renaissance Paris.

  • I wrote a note to my counsel to tell him what had happened; he came to see me and assured me that I should only be under arrest for a few days.

  • I despise them; and if you were to offer me such a sum, I should only accept it to lay it at your feet.

  • There can be no doubt that that would be the better plan, as in that case we should only be seduced by a perfect beauty, and we should grant an easy pardon if at the lifting of the mask we found ugliness instead of loveliness.

  • Thus when we fall in love with a woman, we should only want, as the crown of our bliss, to see a face answerable to those other charms which had taken our fancy.

  • It is very strange that we should only be allowed to waken to a sense of our opportunities to have them taken away from us!

  • Jock allows that he should do otherwise, but he says he has no vigour or connection of ideas to be fit to treat himself consistently, and that he should only do harm by interfering with Dr.

  • The exceeding difficulty and danger of the proof was one reason of his guarding it so much, and desiring it should only be told to one good as well as clever-—clever as well as good.

  • As soon as my grandfather had gone I told my governess that I had made up my mind never to give my hand save where I had given my heart, and that I should only marry a man whose character and tastes I had carefully studied.

  • I had to be begged and entreated for three days before I would give in, and I did so on the condition that he should only ride on his way back.

  • I knew that upon my return to England I should only meet a few fragments of this splendid force, and not the entire mass, as I had done in the Crimea.

  • As my twelve field-stoves had been sent to the Crimea, I knew that my time would be principally taken up by field-cookery, and that I should only be able to give a casual look through the various hospitals.

  • He supposed it was not intended that it was, in the nature of things, too transcendent a power to be exercised by a National Government, but that the exercise of it should only be in consequence of express delegation.

  • He should only remark, that all those who opposed the Government dreaded this doctrine; those who advocated it, declared that it could not be resorted to; and all combined in opinion that it ought not to be tolerated.

  • He should only observe, in addition to this, that our credit depended essentially upon what should be done at this time.

  • You're not fit to manage your own property now; and I should only be acting the part of a good wife if I were to call in the mad- doctors.

  • I should only like to see what would become of the creation, if you were left to yourselves!

  • Taking it at the very best, I should only be worked into my grave.

  • If a dozen or two of my pupils would give up learning, as you talk of doing, I should only be obliged to them.

  • He should only have to go to the office for two hours before breakfast in a morning, to make up for the two lost in the day.

  • He answered that when I had got out of my cell I should be still in prison, and our position would be the same as now, as we should only be in the garrets which were secured by three strong doors.

  • I saw that I should only waste my time in discussion, and I left the fort fully bent on obtaining justice.

  • In the morning the monk wrote me that the passage was made, and that he should only require to work at the ceiling of my cell to break through the last board and this would be done in four minutes.

  • This method will frequently mislead inquisitive aunts and guardians; but it should only be attempted by a man who has full confidence in his own powers.

  • The barbe au bonc, or Muntzian fringe, should only be worn when a gentleman is desirous of obtaining notoriety, and prefers trusting to his external embellishments in preference to his intellectual acquirements.

  • Since the operation for conical cornea is not without serious risks, it should only be undertaken when the vision cannot be improved with glasses to 6/18; high + or - cylinders will often yield satisfactory results.

  • It should only be removed for the purpose of cleansing and should be at once reinserted.

  • It should only be introduced into the meatus as far as the adaptable cartilaginous portion permits--about half an inch in the adult--and not forced into the bony portion.

  • Where carcinoma of the body of the uterus is known to exist, and in old age, it should only be resorted to with the greatest caution, if at all.

  • Hence superphosphate and manures which contain any appreciable amount of soluble phosphoric acid, such as guano, should only be applied shortly before seed-time.

  • Even if I chanced to draw a prize--I should only have to put it back again.

  • I should only be raging up and down like an untied devil because Mrs. Durward was taking up so much of your time!

  • He became strongly interested in a corn-field, and she resumed, "Perhaps I should only do harm.

  • He said that he should only hear a great deal of offensive stuff from Tomkins the brewer; and that, in the desire to displease nobody, the votes should settle down on some nonentity, was the best which was likely to happen.

  • Don't you think I should only rejoice to have such a prosperous home offered to you, if only the man were worthy?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    should always; should attempt; should cease; should desire; should die; should fail; should fall; should have; should hope; should judge; should like; should look; should make; should not; should please; should probably; should receive; should remember; should resign; should see; should serve; should suffer; should suppose; should turn; solemnly swear; strong resemblance