Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony gives us till quarter ter seven then 'e 'll come back and drive it out o' the yard . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , if 'e was in the area it 's a foregone conclusion 'e 'd pop in . |
| 3 | Sometimes the tides run fast an' sometimes a man gets the feelin' 'e can swim across from shore ter shore with ease when it 's runnin' slow . |
| 4 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
| 5 | Which is if , I mean when he was giving lectures in government and binding , people would invited him would put up posters saying government and binding so he got all the wrong audiences . |
| 6 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 8 | If Saddam is overthrown — when Saddam is overthrown — everyone close to him will go too , and it 's unlikely to be a gentle business . |
| 9 | As a lame duck , he will even have to contend with an unruly Republican contingent in Congress , as the fight to succeed him will begin immediately . |
| 10 | The patient 's attitude to you and other people around him can change dramatically because of his stroke or head injury . |
| 11 | He ought to sit down should n't he ? |
| 12 | ‘ 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 … |
| 13 | But since he was put in the charge of the baby-sitter he ought to obey even ( some of ) his misguided orders . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Poor fellow , perhaps he ought to go home and rest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | He ought to do well in both elections , but the main prize looks out of reach . |
| 21 | Well I said what he ought to do tonight , is be going to bed and have an early because do you know every flipping |
| 22 | I 've always felt that he ought to know how I 'm feeling — to realise that I 've got problems too . |
| 23 | He ought to get up and go , just like that , and to hell with the lot of them . |
| 24 | But Ramsay , concerned at this display of Dunbar 's attitude , decided that he ought to stay on a little longer at Berwick , in Seton 's support . |
| 25 | If there 's an inquest , Meredith thought , he ought to come forward and give evidence . |
| 26 | He has said the change in diet and water would be calamitous and that he ought to rest where all is familiar for six months or more . |
| 27 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |
| 28 | ‘ I seem to remember , ’ said the Succentor , feeling he ought to figure somewhere in the conversation , ‘ some very grand tombs in St Benet . |
| 29 | ‘ He ought to marry soon , ’ said Constance . |
| 30 | Bloody shark , he ought to grow up |