Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 2 | I was so struck with the place that when I came back to Le Court I told John that he ought to go there for a visit . |
| 3 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |
| 4 | ‘ I seem to remember , ’ said the Succentor , feeling he ought to figure somewhere in the conversation , ‘ some very grand tombs in St Benet . |
| 5 | Wanted on drug charges , he may end up at the centre of an extraordinary trial in Miami . |
| 6 | Parliament may make it a crime for a Frenchman to smoke on the streets of Paris but he may puff away on the Montparnasse with impunity ( until , that is , he arrives at Dover ) . |
| 7 | On top of that , Wright has his England future to worry about because much as he may look forward to an avalanche of goals against San Marino in February , first he must ensure his presence in the team , then be in control of himself when the chances come . |
| 8 | If he pleads guilty and begs for the mercy of the court , he may get off with a fine and deportation . |
| 9 | If the patient has been referred to a hospital or has sought emergency treatment at a hospital , then he may proceed either against the negligent individual , the relevant Health Authority , or both . |
| 10 | ( 8 ) If any party to an appeal to the sheriff under any provision of this Act ( other than Part VII ) is dissatisfied in point of law with a decision of the sheriff , he may appeal therefrom to the Court of Session within 28 days from the date of that decision . |
| 11 | Now assuming he knows what four times two is and assuming he knows what two plus one is and so on , he may come up with the answer ‘ Nine ’ , or he may come up with the answer ‘ Twelve ’ , and they 're both right . |
| 12 | Now assuming he knows what four times two is and assuming he knows what two plus one is and so on , he may come up with the answer ‘ Nine ’ , or he may come up with the answer ‘ Twelve ’ , and they 're both right . |
| 13 | He may come in for a steak , but he wants to take his time and enjoy a leisurely meal . |
| 14 | Tomorrow he may come in for a steak , but needs to be in and out in ten minutes . |
| 15 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 16 | He should legislate now for a referendum to be held once the negotiations at Maastricht are complete . |
| 17 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 18 | It somehow did n't surprise her that he should go straight to the heart of things . |
| 19 | A twin-engined fighter is a beast , I told Messerschmitt he should go back to the drawing board . |
| 20 | He was then befriended by a young mother of two , , who took him shopping every week and suggested that he should go along to the centre . |
| 21 | When , in November , Coleridge was persuaded by his Bristol friends that he should return permanently to the city , he expressed sadness at leaving Clevedon , but probably felt relatively little , even though the only home available to him and Sara was in cramped quarters in Mrs Fricker 's house . |
| 22 | He should face up to the need to release those much-needed funds for Scotland . |
| 23 | An imaginative pragmatist judge might be tempted , for example , to divorce the question of what rule he should lay down for the future from the question of how he should decide the case before him . |
| 24 | Provided a tribe member can recognise an intention that he should respond appropriately to a signal in the simple system , we are happy to regard the signal as linguistically meaningful to him , rather than simply causing or triggering certain behaviour — as was the case with the bees . |
| 25 | If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government . |
| 26 | ‘ If Prost wants to be called champion for a fourth time he should come back in a sporting way . |
| 27 | Mrs Wilson had told him he should get out of the house more . |
| 28 | The doctor then told Alexander that he must go on with the treatment . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 30 | If the seller does agree to convey them , he must do so within a reasonable length of time , section 29(3) . |