Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He ought to see a vet . ’ |
| 3 | After the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943 he privately reckoned the chances of a similar German collapse at six to four against ; and he recognised , partly under pressure from Attlee and others on the Labour side , that he ought to appoint a senior Minister to co-ordinate the planning of reconstruction . |
| 4 | He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . " |
| 5 | An obscure feeling that he ought to have a key to this house made him resentful . |
| 6 | He ought to have a feeling of reverence for the beautiful things his great-uncle had entrusted to him . |
| 7 | Maybe he ought to have a shower or something . |
| 8 | If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy . |
| 9 | He ought to have a licence for eyelashes like that ! |
| 10 | ‘ It is the people hereabouts that I like , ’ said Mr Crump , feeling the silence as censure and well aware that he ought to play a proper part in the conversation . |
| 11 | Charles thought he ought to show an interest in more mundane , soldierly matters . |
| 12 | Nothing would , nothing could go wrong today ; he ought to find a betting shop and put some money on a horse , he felt so lucky , so good , so in tune . |
| 13 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 14 | A few commandos struggled ashore , among them Captain Michael Burn , who went alone three quarters of a mile across the docks to near the northern bridge where he did what he could to destroy an unmanned battery and was visited by Bill Copland doing a round of the northern positions . |
| 15 | Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal . |
| 16 | Yeah oh he 's er what happened to him , right he used to like a drink when he were here . |
| 17 | Mr used to open up his dragons and start his steam engine and driving the organ , and he used to give an organ recital every wakes ' Sunday night for the cot fund . |
| 18 | When he first started out , he used to wear a pair of very baggy , red striped pyjamas ! |
| 19 | He went to er College , and he used to wear a mortar board , cos that 's the tassel hanging down , and this here thing . |
| 20 | He used to wear a Halloween mask to hide his birthmark when he played with his wee friends . |
| 21 | In order to keep the boys separate from the girls he used to draw a chalk line down the middle of our meeting room , and when we got carried away and crossed the line he would burst into a ferocious rage , pick up anything that was to hand — usually a book — and throw it at the offender , who had to duck fast in order not to be hit . |
| 22 | He used to own a garage , that one with the big car showrooms on the High Street . |
| 23 | ‘ My father was an atheist , yet he used to mark a cross on the top of bread before cutting it . |
| 24 | ‘ You can always tell the ones he did , he used to put a little devil in the corner , do you remember that ? ’ |
| 25 | The rabbits he used to put a snare down for , and erm if we were lucky we got one . |
| 26 | He we used he used to put a in the little front garden like you know . |
| 27 | Similarly , he used to take a healthy interest in his wife 's bowel movements , as is meet . |
| 28 | Local man Paul McAllister heard the screams and raced to the scene with a ladder which he used to reach a bedroom window . |
| 29 | He claimed he used to hold a tie round Murray 's arm as he injected himself . |
| 30 | But he was reserved , and he used to do a lot of thinking , especially on the golf course where he used to keep himself to himself . |