Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to get rid of the lot , ’ his nan used to say . |
| 2 | He was wondering whether he ought to start going through the clothes at once , or wait for Sergeant Burgess , when an attendant came to say that the sergeant had arrived . |
| 3 | In the United Sterling case the basis for dismissing the motion was that there was no evidence that the defendant was given any special information which he ought to have regarded as a separate part of his stock of knowledge which an honest employee would have recognised as property of the employer . |
| 4 | And then he ought to have gone to the husband and insisted on the wife being separately advised … |
| 5 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |
| 6 | When the retailer receives an answer to his enquiry , giving the information he requested , he may decide to write to the manufacturer again , asking for a quotation for a large quantity of the product . |
| 7 | From Oxford he may have travelled into the south-west . |
| 8 | It looks like he may have travelled under an assumed name , God knows why . ’ |
| 9 | At least , he may have begun in a monastery , but in the event he took orders and was for years a junior pastor somewhere in Worcestershire . |
| 10 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 11 | Although the government continued to think him dangerous — and there are signs that he may have remained in the revamped United Irish movement during his brother 's imprisonment — in 1803 he advised Thomas Russell [ q.v. ] against rebellion and there is no evidence of treasonable activity thereafter . |
| 12 | ‘ He tells me he may have to go into a rest home . |
| 13 | He may have looked like a bank-clerk but he had the heart of a poet , whether he wrote in iambic pentameters or the plain but effective doggerel of the common man . |
| 14 | His system seems to have evolved by 1807 , whereby he made pencil drawings of exceptional quality , sometimes with marginal notes on colours , light , sun position , and any licence he may have taken with the topography . |
| 15 | It 's thought he may have collapsed from the shock of the burglary . |
| 16 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 17 | He may have blundered into the area after losing his way . |
| 18 | He may have fought in the army raiding England between 1009 and 1012 , and certainly assisted in Cnut 's conquest of 1015 – 16 , subsequently receiving the earldom of Northumbria . |
| 19 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 20 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 21 | He may have come as a very self- satisfied person , after all , socially , he had made it . |
| 22 | He may have cooperated with the Danes in some way at the siege of Canterbury in 1011 , and it was maybe in 1023 that he received the bishopric of Sherborne after the expulsion of Bishop Brihtwine . |
| 23 | When the patient can stand up successfully , without incurring any associated reactions in the arm , trunk or leg , he may practise standing on the hemiplegic leg with the normal leg off the floor , resting on a stool . |
| 24 | Whatever claims for the English language he may wish to make from a supposedly technical , linguistic perspective , he can not assume that attributing ‘ objectivity ’ to it is unproblematic , or that the meaning attributed to it within that sub-culture can safely be carried over into cross-cultural correlations with the features of certain languages and grammars . |
| 25 | Now 's also the time to warn your remover about any parking restrictions at either end of the journey — he may need to liaise with the police . |
| 26 | Decisions are then needed on how to train , which will include whether or which parts should be on-line or off-line , whether the operator is required to function in a mainly programmed ( i.e. rule-following ) mode and how far he may need to function in a conceptual ( i.e. actions based on understanding ) mode . |
| 27 | He should stop coming to the House pretending to support home-owners when his policies would discriminate against them . |
| 28 | Afterwards he asked himself whether he did all that he should have done about the miners and the working men . |
| 29 | Second , Y never gave possession of the car to his customer ( M ) as he should have done after the finance company ( Z ) had accepted the hire purchase proposal . |
| 30 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |