Example sentences of "we [modal v] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 2 | We need an investigator of your reputation , Curb , to seek out the criminal , so we may punish him ’ . |
| 3 | If you can show me plainly where Tutilo was until past that hour , we may strike him from the roll and forget him . ’ |
| 4 | Whatever else we may suppose him to be , this pure life , the ineffable and incomprehensible good , is Beatitude . |
| 5 | We know also the son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true and we are |
| 6 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 7 | The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth . |
| 8 | But still , my friend , I think we ought to watch him , the three of us . ’ |
| 9 | We ought to tell him . ’ |
| 10 | So I think we ought to congratulate him on that . |
| 11 | We ought to get him away from here as soon as possible . |
| 12 | And I think we ought to get him over to one of our meetings . |
| 13 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 14 | Yes , it is a good time to buy Mr , yes , we ought to encourage him to buy . |
| 15 | As these authors point out , to can only be dropped ( optionally ) in non-assertive contexts ( as with dare and need ) , the to-less form being completely unacceptable to speakers of English in assertive uses : ( 78 ) * We ought give him another chance . |
| 16 | Do n't you think we should give him the benefit of the doubt ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think we should reinforce the fence with fine mesh , and we should give him somewhere to hide — a place inside his enclosure where he can feel safe . ’ |
| 18 | Madam , I 'm gon na ask you to say in those circumstances that we should give him the maximum discharge . |
| 19 | I do n't think he has that many visitors and I feel we should give him all the support we can . ’ |
| 20 | Mark , if you think that Strach was looking that far ahead then we should snap him up immediately , as if he is that much of a thinker then he could make a great manager . |
| 21 | The rest of this book will not produce more than a flawed account of some of the arguments that have been advanced both concerning the physical and moral nature of God ( because even if a God existed , there is still the question of whether we should worship Him or rebel against Him ) . |
| 22 | But when he says that the real and nominal essences of a mode , such as a triangle , coincide , he really does mean what we should expect him to mean : that our idea of a triangle is like the horologist 's idea of the Strasburg clock , an idea of its real essence , and not like that of the gazing countryman , an idea of some of its properties . |
| 23 | This style of argument is frequently found in Peirce 's writings , so we should expect him to make use of materials from psychology and biology in his writings on knowledge . |
| 24 | Yes , we should sack him . |
| 25 | ‘ That is what he wanted us all to think , including the Men , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we should honour him for his cunning and intelligence . |
| 26 | Whether we should send him off with a shove in his rear and a pair of boxed ears does not matter . |
| 27 | We should watch him . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If you 're worried about him , we should make him come to us . |
| 29 | Maybe we should tell him that . |
| 30 | Maybe we should tell him to get a modem & subscribe so that he can get some real electronic info ? |