Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 2 | he ought to have stayed for several days . |
| 3 | He ought to have blinded her too , the bitch . |
| 4 | He ought to have endeavoured to advise the wife and to place her position and the consequences of what she was doing fully and plainly before her . |
| 5 | He ought to have waited to fire one really effective salvo at close range . |
| 6 | Perhaps he ought to have realised it was too soon , or his superiors ought to have realised . |
| 7 | Without warning , he had fallen into just the sort of trouble he ought to have kept out of . |
| 8 | And David says that your husband is a doctor : he ought to have sent you straight up to the mountains . ’ |
| 9 | He ought to have slapped me across the face . |
| 10 | She was a scold — whenever she was near him he felt in the wrong and wondered anxiously what it was he ought to have done . |
| 11 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 12 | Feeling he has n't done things he ought to have done — has n't fulfilled his promise . |
| 13 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I have n't really got round to it , ’ he said , frowning a little , as if he ought to have done . |
| 15 | He ought to have done it through the college got it cheaper . |
| 16 | Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first . |
| 17 | Possibly the test is , ‘ Can it be inferred from the facts of the particular case that the occupier had such control over the licensee or over the circumstances which made his act possible that he ought to have prevented it ? |
| 18 | His wariness turned to unease — he ought to have suspected something ; no richly dressed gentleman handed you a fill of tobacco on the open road — his unease began to scramble to panic : he let his pipe go dead . |
| 19 | And then he ought to have gone to the husband and insisted on the wife being separately advised … |
| 20 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 21 | He spent all his money on these two pursuits and on his clothes , and he ought to have looked sallow and oily and corrupt , but he was always pink and immaculate . |
| 22 | Gowned , dark-suited , he ought to have looked fitting , impressive . |
| 23 | Rain argued that once Pascoe had left the paper he ought to have put it out of his mind . |
| 24 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
| 25 | But , at the moment , it did strike him that he ought to have thought more about Céline 's situation . |
| 26 | ‘ Aye , ’ she said undeterred , ‘ and He ought to have known better . ’ |
| 27 | Is it necessary to show that the defendant subjectively knew of the dishonest design or merely that he ought to have known ? |
| 28 | He ought to have known better , but he was blinded by his own sex-centredness . |
| 29 | He ought to have known that anyway . ’ |
| 30 | He ought to have known that Dorrainge would meddle , well , he had known it , but it had actually been rather difficult to leave him behind . |