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Example sentences for "should receive"

  • Remember, too, if he should receive you, drop nothing about the duel or the wound.

  • It might be that her husband in his sanguine and warm-hearted way, calculated rather on the affection he bestowed than that he should receive, and so deemed the friendship between them a closer and stronger tie than it was.

  • He thought it advisable to make a distinction not only between existing and future clerical incumbents, but also between clergymen and lay impropriators; and he proposed that the existing clerical incumbent should receive £73 8s.

  • We agreed that he should receive one-fourth of the treasure, Capitani another fourth, and that the remainder should belong to me.

  • The cardinal replied that the superioress should receive instructions to oblige her in every particular.

  • The major advised me to write out my story and send it to the secretary of war, undertaking that he should receive it, and he assured me that he would become my protector.

  • Suppose he should receive an acceptance by letter or telegraph but deny it, and insist that no contract had been made.

  • But if B, notwithstanding his direction to his agent not to collect payment, should receive it such conduct would operate as a ratification.

  • Callanan was chairman, interviewed the governor, asking a recognition of woman's right of suffrage, and were told it should receive consideration.

  • Having a brother in Spain, he expected that he should receive accounts of him from a brother officer; is that an unnatural sensation?

  • So they received assurances upon oath from him, that when he came to him he should receive no harm from him, and then went and brought him out of the cellar wherein he was hid, and brought him to Ahab as he sat in his chariot.

  • To him I delivered my passport, on condition that I should receive a written receipt, and should be allowed to telegraph to the British ambassador in St. Petersburg.

  • A merchant subscribed to a society which enjoyed the patronage of a Grand Duchess a considerable sum of money, under the express condition that he should receive in return a St. Vladimir Cross.

  • That evening I called at his office, and insisted upon his accepting one half of the fees which I knew I should receive.

  • The wasp was covered with a basin until it should receive a murderer's doom; and when the basin was removed for its execution, nothing was seen of the fly but the wings and a number of little black pieces.

  • And I determined, in case I should receive none, to proceed, without further loss of time, to make a formal overture to the Minister for a treaty on the ground of this instruction.

  • It was decided that I should receive no salary until the Union had been running twelve months.

  • It was then decided that I should receive a salary of 23s.

  • Finally he agreed to return all the papers, and about twenty-five hundred dollars besides, on condition that he should receive a sentence of only five years in the penitentiary on entering a plea of guilty.

  • But in the printed terms of the agreement which I signed it was promised that I should receive a three pound bounty and a free kit.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "should receive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    awful nice; descending order; eighteen inches; expose himself; remarkably well; should advise; should always; should become; should first; should hate; should haue; should hear; should look; should perhaps; should probably; should propose; should return; should seek; should stand; should succeed; should suffer; should suppose; should they; small farm; three hundred thousand dollars; transverse sections