Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year , after an excellent May and June playing for David Waterlane , Drew felt he ought to put something back into the game . |
| 2 | As to the visit to Merstham , I had hoped that if he were to come all that way , he ought to see something of the country , as it was then still of an unspoilt rural character and in autumn especially beautiful . |
| 3 | Edward Crumwallis knew he ought to say something . |
| 4 | He varied his dancing routine with occasional headlong gallops round the lawn and it was after he had done about ten successive laps that he seemed to decide he ought to do something about the bitch . |
| 5 | She could no longer feel her feet , but , glancing down at them , not too obviously for fear Richard should feel that he ought to do something about them , she saw that both of them were now bleeding . |
| 6 | Well I think he ought to do something . |
| 7 | That period is to all intents and purposes part of the sentence , and he ought to know everything that is said about him before it is fixed . |
| 8 | Charles Paris was heard to remark cynically that George , having seen that the star had got a deaf-aid , thought he ought to have one too . |
| 9 | My husband feels he ought to have someone else on the side . |
| 10 | Burkett 's daughter sat on the stallion like a lady in a tapestry and he felt his body move out to join hers ; he ought to marry someone like her — handsome , workaday , submissive , as sensual as a sunny woodland ; perhaps he would ask her . |
| 11 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 12 | If the hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) would like to intervene , I should be pleased to give way , but if he listens he may learn something . |
| 13 | ‘ You never know , he may have something for you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He may have somebody else in mind . ’ |
| 15 | He may ask anyone who has supplied the product in question , e.g. retailer , wholesaler or distributor , to identify the producer , own-brander or importer into the European Community . |
| 16 | We suspect that he may know something about the downing of this plane that we do n't know he knows , if you follow me . |
| 17 | He is shaking his head and pleading not guilty , but he may know something about its origins . |
| 18 | Hast thee consulted Miller — the last being new , he may know nothing of . |
| 19 | It would be harsh to hold a person liable for the act of every casual visitor who has bare permission to enter his land and of whose propensities to evil he may know nothing ; e.g . |
| 20 | Trent knew that he should do something . |
| 21 | Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it . |
| 22 | She could see his brain struggling to find an escape route and that he should want one hurt and shocked her . |
| 23 | Don , knowing he should say something , managed ‘ The horse is crooked . ’ |
| 24 | He should fear nothing but put his hopes in the sender who wished him well . |
| 25 | ‘ He should have one , too . ’ |
| 26 | Stack Rock won over the minimum trip at Newbury earlier in the season and , with rain forecast in the Haydock area , he should have everything in his favour today . |
| 27 | In Munich , as one observer reported , each apprentice was made ‘ industrially efficient ’ ; and ‘ with this end in view ’ it was ‘ not sufficient ’ to receive instructions merely in the technical side of the trade , for the young worker to become ‘ a worthy citizen ’ , he should know something ‘ of his duties and responsibilities to the State ’ . |
| 28 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 29 | He should know something by close of play today . |
| 30 | Jackie said , well ring them , sh he should know something about it ! |