Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , d'yer fink 'e 'll pay tuppence ? ’ asked Linda . |
| 2 | ‘ Your father 'e can go smoke , ’ Madame retorted , sitting Ellie down in a chair . |
| 3 | They say anyone who thinks they recognise him should contact police immediately . |
| 4 | My communication to him must take priority . |
| 5 | Those who would punish him must deny Scripture , and Scripture indicates it is they who will be the ones punished . |
| 6 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 7 | Anyway , surely someone like him could get hold of condoms if that 's what he wanted . ’ |
| 8 | If we look at Gandhi 's teaching in this connection we see that self-alienation for him would involve ignorance ( avidyā ) of the true nature of the Self ( Ātman ) . |
| 9 | And I said anyone ringing up D and telling him would get £25 . |
| 10 | As for the poll I think Gav is just a little bit biased in his choice of Cuntona , as im sure anyone who has seen him will confirm Gavs evening job is actually as a Cuntona look a like you know posing for pictures for the Sun with an easel and tweeds . |
| 11 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |
| 12 | ‘ He ought to remarry Fatima . ’ |
| 13 | She could not see Lamont 's feet , but she was sure he ought to wear spats . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Francis wondered whether he ought to mention money , then decided it was too soon . |
| 16 | He then behaved somewhat unctuously , showing it to half the Shadow Cabinet in order to get their advice as to whether or not he ought to worry Baldwin with it . |
| 17 | In determining whether the defendants ought to be held liable under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher , the learned judge considered that he ought to pay regard to ( i ) the quantities of combustible materials which the defendants brought onto the land ; ( ii ) the way in which they stored them ; and ( iii ) the character of the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | He was thinking that perhaps he ought to warn Rain where the MacQuillan case was leading . |
| 19 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 20 | But he went up there now , with Bienvida trailing behind him , from an obscure feeling that he ought to show Jarvis this offer was appreciated . |
| 21 | If he has the support of the prime minister and main political colleagues , he can decide any matter which comes before him as he may think expedient . |
| 22 | ( 11 ) If a licensing board is not elected at the time at which it ought to be elected , or an insufficient number of members is elected for a board , the Secretary of State may by order provide for the holding of an election or elections for supplying such fault or deficiency in election at such times and in such manner as he may think expedient . |
| 23 | Even though he may pay lip service to the idea that there are probably many breaks not yet discovered , nevertheless almost every geologist seems to accept the above doctrine , albeit subconsciously . |
| 24 | A manufacturer can delegate some or all of his overseas operations to an export house or he may delegate parts of the actual selling task to the export house . |
| 25 | If the retailer wants to find out about sales figures , for example , he may present information as a bar chart . |
| 26 | Where the summons has been so sent by post and returned to the court office undelivered , notice of non-service ( N 216 ) is sent to the plaintiff saying that he may request bailiff service . |
| 27 | Or he may marry money . |
| 28 | Denis Smith says it 's not going to be an easy job because they 're in a poor league position … he may change players by wheeling and dealing but is under no pressure to sell |
| 29 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 30 | The student may seek escape in passivity and make only perfunctory efforts to learn the target language ; or he may express antagonism by making no effort to adopt the correct pronunciation or by a deliberate use of native language patterns in the target language . |