Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He knows what he ought to say . |
| 32 | That evening Chamberlain telephoned to Baldwin in Aix and told hint that he ought to return to London . |
| 33 | In any case , he felt he ought to stop making too many major pronouncements of this kind . |
| 34 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 35 | So if you approach a sympathetic , but so far neutral , person and start telling him that he ought to give his support because of x , y and z policies he is likely to be bored and irritated . |
| 36 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 37 | I said he ought to give most of it away . |
| 38 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 39 | By the time of the World Council at Amsterdam the question began to come into Ramsey 's head what he ought to do next . |
| 40 | He ought to do well in both elections , but the main prize looks out of reach . |
| 41 | Anyone , then , who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins . |
| 42 | And there was something else he ought to do . |
| 43 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 44 | And yet the merest thought of her drove out all consideration of what he ought to do . |
| 45 | I told him all about himself and what he ought to do in life . |
| 46 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 47 | She could no longer feel her feet , but , glancing down at them , not too obviously for fear Richard should feel that he ought to do something about them , she saw that both of them were now bleeding . |
| 48 | This generalisation then describes what the student is doing , not what he ought to do . |
| 49 | If such a plea as this could be supported , the following would be a binding promise : A man might complain that another person used the public highway more than he ought to do , and that other might say , do not complain , and I will give you five pounds . |
| 50 | ‘ He will do what he ought to do — you can depend on that . ’ |
| 51 | Probably Jordan had n't really spoken at all , he was a kind of doppelganger telling Coffin not only what he ought to do , but what he also knew . |
| 52 | Well I think he ought to do something . |
| 53 | Well I said what he ought to do tonight , is be going to bed and have an early because do you know every flipping |
| 54 | The voice was incisive and cold , and he knew he ought to relax , to keep calm , above all to shut up , but somehow he could n't . |
| 55 | The drive — perhaps that was what he ought to call it ? — which Gemma may well have inherited in abundance . |
| 56 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 57 | Now as I understand it the minister 's position is that he be bound to refer that matter to the partner responsible for audit and that partner er would then be put on notice that er he ought to report it to the relevant authority . |
| 58 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 59 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 60 | He ought to swap the doctors that he has at the Serious Fraud Office for those who decide applications for disability allowance and attendance allowance . |