Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He ought to remarry Fatima . ’
2 He ought to sit down should n't he ?
3 He ought to muster and start south before nightfall , if he 's going south . ’
4 ‘ If Inspector Cotton finds out there is a common weapon in this case and his , he will be saying that he ought to control both …
5 His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations .
6 But since he was put in the charge of the baby-sitter he ought to obey even ( some of ) his misguided orders .
7 If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child .
8 The following year , after an excellent May and June playing for David Waterlane , Drew felt he ought to put something back into the game .
9 In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche .
10 She could not see Lamont 's feet , but she was sure he ought to wear spats .
11 To his surprise and discontent the first two thought that he ought to go .
12 Despite the advice of William Telfer that he ought to go , Cambridge was not pleased with Ramsey .
13 The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all .
14 He ought to go to Sanderstown right away and have an operation for arthrodesis by a proper orthopaedic surgeon . ’
15 As happened on almost every occasion when he tried to preach the gospel of Hitlerian Fascism , a man in the crowd suggested that if Joyce thought Nazi Germany such a wonderful place , he ought to go there instead of trying to import its political system into England .
16 Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons .
17 Poor fellow , perhaps he ought to go home and rest .
18 I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit .
19 Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds .
20 He supposed he ought to go and sign on ; let the unemployment people know he was out of a job again .
21 Which is also why I feel that he ought to go to Ironcrest as well .
22 He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis .
23 As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful .
24 He ought to see a vet . ’
25 He wondered if he ought to wait , but he wanted to get back to Rochester before she came afloat .
26 Well he ought to talk to Nicola about that .
27 And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him .
28 There were a hundred things that he knew he ought to say .
29 His voice softened when he saw her reaction and became more confident , as though he could now say what he wanted rather than what he ought to say .
30 Edward Crumwallis knew he ought to say something .
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