modal verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
how shall I/we put it? (= used before saying something in an indirect or polite way )
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Mr Lewis is now – how shall we put it? – hardly the influence he once was.
should have known
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I should have known it wouldn’t be easy.
should know better
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It’s just prejudice from educated people who should know better .
the punishment should fit the crime (= it should be appropriate )
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The public believe that the punishment should fit the crime.
you should have seen sb’s face (= used to say that someone was very angry, surprised etc )
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You should have seen his face when I told him that I was resigning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I should have thought ...
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And marriage, I should have thought , is a false step you must have been well warned against.
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Any leader, I should have thought , would have demanded loyalty and support from a vice-president as a basic minimum.
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It's very important to me - and, I should have thought , to you too.
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She's a pretty child, but hardly his intellectual level, I should have thought .
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That is rather obvious, I should have thought .
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The royal crest is used on the front of the annual report, which I should have thought was improper.
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The scent of the tea as I poured it ... I should have thought .
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This seems an odd argument for smoking to me and, I should have thought , to smokers, too.
I should hope so (too)
I should think/imagine/hope
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He said there might be one way, you know, I should think about it.
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I wouldn't mind. I should think he'd be very demanding.
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Interesting, I should think, with a name like Hamish.
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Look at my dad. I should think he's got half his lunch down his.
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Looking forward to getting back to your farm, I should think?
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Not for far, I should think - not if its nose has gone.
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Rather like seizure, I should imagine.
I/you should be so lucky!
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Sleep past 6 a.m.? I should be so lucky !
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
children should be seen and not heard
how should I know?/how am I to know?/how do I know?
how/why should ... ?
must/should etc be pushing along
never the twain shall meet
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Generally, the streetwise dealers work in a separate camp from the more educated types, and never the twain shall meet.
sb will/would/should etc go far
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A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.
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And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.
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Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far .
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Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.
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It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.
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She'd been sure her daughter would go far .
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This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.
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Whether the stadium logs another round of lease-backed debt will go far in determining the fate of other major capital-improvement projects here.
shall I/we say
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A prankster, shall we say ?
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And what shall I say more?
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Here's how it opens: What shall we say , then?
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In other words, you've got to have, shall we say , the equipment to go with the line.
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Instead, he summoned Ford to Philadelphia, a place where Ford is, shall we say , known?
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It has, shall we say , connotations!
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She was a pretty fiery, and shall we say , a somewhat lusty character.
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What shall I say , eh, eh, eh?
should the need arise
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He knew that should the need arise for him to burst into consciousness, he would.
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The network topology is such that new file-servers can be plugged in at any time should the need arise .
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What she needed was a weapon of some sort, something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise .
should/ought really
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A party which feels obliged to pitch such climbs in good conditions should really go and choose something easier.
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I hoped that would help me through the omnipresent feeling that wherever I am, I should really be somewhere else.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Only when the natural world begins to fight back will we know how frightened we should really be.
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Participants should really have attended the previous weekend workshop but please call Pegasus for more information.
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To protect Britain's biggest manufacturer by making it less efficient: now that should really worry the public.
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You should really ask a grunt.
that should do it
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Slosh on a bit of this, and that should do it.
what sb should do with sth/what to do with sth etc
what should I see but sth/who should appear but sb etc
who shall remain nameless
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My Lover For I will consider my lover, who shall remain nameless .
you should have seen/heard sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As we shall see in the next chapter, many of these practices are still in use.
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No such authorization shall be given without the manager's written consent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being Prime Minister was' the most enormous privilege ... and one I shall treasure.
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But here again it appears that poor Michael was, shall we say, not fully briefed.
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I shall come to you for advice, said Liz.
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I shall consider briefly how these historical changes have affected patterns of support between family members.
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If you can advise me I shall be very grateful.
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Some are political, and to these we shall return in a moment.
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We shall have even less time than before to enrich the curriculum with a range of imaginative exploratory activity.
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We shall see how this affects the question of determinism in these theories.