Example sentences of "he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man is sitting under a tree , and a young girl is near him ; I think he is blind — at least , he ought to be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Rob Bettinson , the director , has deduced that he ought to have these images plus disc-jockeys , radio commercials , midwestern hops , but he does n't seem to know why . |
| 4 | Part of the Heseltine strategy is , no doubt , based on the calculation that these debts one day can be collected — and certainly , within the Conservative Party 's electoral college of MPs , he ought to have established some impressive lines of credit . |
| 5 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 6 | About this time he started to wonder whether he ought to be a monk . |
| 7 | By the time of the World Council at Amsterdam the question began to come into Ramsey 's head what he ought to do next . |
| 8 | To his surprise and discontent the first two thought that he ought to go . |
| 9 | Despite the advice of William Telfer that he ought to go , Cambridge was not pleased with Ramsey . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 12 | I asked him what it might have been ; after all , if he was an expert on the local birds then he ought to know . |
| 13 | ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sure , ’ said Crocker , ‘ he ought to have had his own being a war baby and a cog in the welfare state . |
| 15 | Perhaps he ought to have realised it was too soon , or his superiors ought to have realised . |
| 16 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 17 | ‘ It is , of course , precisely what he ought to be seeing , ’ he agreed , reluctantly . |
| 18 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 19 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 20 | He ought to have been off somewhere else on a shoot by now . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My husband feels he ought to have someone else on the side . |
| 23 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 24 | He ought to start looking for work now . ’ |
| 25 | Charles thought he ought to show an interest in more mundane , soldierly matters . |
| 26 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |
| 27 | Well , he should be ashamed of himself , he ought to have better things to think about . ’ |
| 28 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He told Calero he ought to find himself a code-name — a suggestion Calero virtually ignored — because ‘ the Soviets listen to everything on the east coast ’ . |