Example sentences of "he [modal v] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to remarry Fatima . ’ |
| 2 | She could not see Lamont 's feet , but she was sure he ought to wear spats . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Francis wondered whether he ought to mention money , then decided it was too soon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was thinking that perhaps he ought to warn Rain where the MacQuillan case was leading . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Try as he might to gain entry , the doors of the Viceroy 's House remained closed to him . |
| 11 | Nick Moore did everything he could to persuade Derbyshire police that he , not Boler , was the robber . |
| 12 | Joe held out his hand , they shook hands and walked away from each other , Joe feeling that he had done what he could to save Maureen from wrecking her life and suffering years of pain but troubled by sympathy and liking for Chris . |
| 13 | One might imagine that Jean-Claude would have done all he could to dissuade Montaine from decamping . |
| 14 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 15 | As a boy growing up in New York , he recalls his father doing whatever he could to keep food in the ten hungry mouths , including buying up condoms and sunglasses wholesale and selling them to shopkeepers . |
| 16 | He said he did everything he could to calm Farrow down , including on two occasions taking her to the exclusive Carlyle Hotel and sleeping with her after she begged him to do so . |
| 17 | Whatever doubts there may be about Edward 's commitment to crusade , none can be entertained of John XXII's , for he did all that he could to bring England to a state of peace and Edward to the point of departure . |
| 18 | He also said Clarke was anxious to do all he could to make amends . |
| 19 | He took it up in a Pauline spirit , as a reparation ; now the least of Christians ( by special grace ) but once an infidel , and even if he had not persecuted the faithful , one who scorned the Faith , he would do what he could to convert men or stop them from straying away . |
| 20 | Jackson told him that General MacArthur had spoken to Jackson before he left Tokyo and had urged him to do all he could to assist Hodge and to prevent any dangerous developments . |
| 21 | is it , ah , they used to be su , according to everyone he was such a so and so , he er , he 's , he used to be barmy , he was like the clo , close barmy man and he used to like chase people around with bricks and stuff and everyone used to hate him and like Julian and Andy used to beat him up all the time |
| 22 | Now in this chapter , Capturing Animals he says that when he was young , before he ever started writing poems , he used to like animals , he used to like them dead as well as alive |
| 23 | Another thing we used to do regularly as well we boys er there was a erm a yeast merchant in erm er Road , well I say merchant it ti it was his house , and he had a garage at the side of it and he used to sell yeast . |
| 24 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 25 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 26 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
| 27 | He used to give Albert some pocket money and he was satisfied , but me mother was n't . |
| 28 | Oh yeah you had Sunday off , there was a the boss Mr was a Congregationalist , he used to attend Road Congregational Church . |
| 29 | When Bill was setting up his first home , he used to attend auction sales , looking for reasonably priced furniture . |
| 30 | When we were at college he used to invite people to ‘ cleaning parties ’ once a month . |