Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt strangely inactive , as if he ought to offer to help in some way ; pour glasses of juice perhaps . |
| 2 | he ought to have stayed for several days . |
| 3 | However , if a police officer is suddenly told by control that the member of the public with whom he is dealing may be suffering from a mental disorder , he may start to deal with that individual differently , and in a way that may not be particularly helpful . |
| 4 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 5 | He may have acted in this way because the dog was worrying sheep , or because he wanted to annoy the dog 's owner , or simply because he despises all alsatians . |
| 6 | He may have drowned for all I care . |
| 7 | He may have come to this decision in 1531 or 1532 and then proceeded cautiously because of the fear of opposition both at home and abroad . |
| 8 | For example , if the tenant has the right to break if the local planning authority refuses to renew a temporary planning permission he may wish to appeal against that refusal . |
| 9 | The break-up specialist may have an interest in retaining certain parts of the company or he may wish to dispose of all of it to other companies . |
| 10 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 11 | Indignation surged up within her — that he should have to live like this . |
| 12 | What a pity it was that he should have to live in that depressing room . |
| 13 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 14 | There had been rather a mystery as to why he should have died at that particular time . |
| 15 | ‘ He should have thought of that earlier . ’ |
| 16 | He should have thought of that risk ; he wondered if Sims had thought of it . |
| 17 | There was 110 possible reason why he should have wished at that stage to foreclose his options between December and January , or January and the spring . |
| 18 | If he should come to hear of all this , however , he still had the right to apply to the court for a ‘ stay of execution ’ . |
| 19 | Then he wondered if he was capable of putting what he must have heard to some use . |
| 20 | And he must have gone to those churches for the first time . |
| 21 | Old enough , certainly , to brood upon things , and too young to make much sense of the sights and sounds he must have seen in this dismal little room . |
| 22 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 23 | Yeah , he must have worked till half past three last night . |
| 24 | He must have put in some agile footwork at times , to get this far through his life still single , and yet have all the fun he 's had . ’ |
| 25 | He must have agreed to all this . |
| 26 | I said I 'm sure he 'll want to listen to this ? |
| 27 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 28 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 29 | He was sufficiently confused by the English way of repressing emotion to characterise kind Hearts and Coronets as characteristic of Ealing movies in being emotionally quite frozen , ’ and so fastidiously determined to stay aloof from bland commercialism that he took no interest in the horror genre ( even though his later use of the Frankenstein story in his 1982 film Britannia Hospital suggests how much of a contribution he might have made in this area ) . |
| 30 | Even had he not , he might have supported with more equanimity that defeat . |