Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Aah thowt as 'ow 'e 'd 'ave more sense . ’ |
2 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |
3 | Telling him would mean more questions and delay her departure . |
4 | It was , however , a month or two before they gave up sending me colourful brochures with inducements to have a rose bush planted in his name or an attractively calligraphed entry in their ‘ Book of Remembrance ’ , to be opened every year on the date of his death to commemorate his passing etc , etc , none of which was cheap and I 'm sure that neither I nor anyone else who knew him will need that kind of reminder . |
5 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
6 | He ought to take more care . |
7 | Having acquired a wife , Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future . |
8 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
9 | Rob Bettinson , the director , has deduced that he ought to have these images plus disc-jockeys , radio commercials , midwestern hops , but he does n't seem to know why . |
10 | On the one hand , he may include individual parking spaces within each demise ; on the other , he may grant each tenant a general right to park cars , either limited to a specified number of cars per tenant or on a daily " first come first served " basis . |
11 | Where the demised property consists of part only of a building the draftsman may either include sanitary facilities in each demise or he may grant each tenant a right to use communal facilities . |
12 | If the teacher explains the aims and objectives of the foreign-language course and the methods to be employed to attain them , he may transform this attitude into a readiness to learn by a certain method . |
13 | He may give more weight to pattern than to vocabulary : how to say things rather than what to say . |
14 | When he 's trying to impress you or your family , he may do all sorts of things he would n't dream of doing after the wedding . |
15 | He may oppose this measure but he should not pre-empt the results of the environmental assessment . |
16 | He may have more tax to pay if he does not survive seven years ( IHTA 1984 , s7(4) ) . |
17 | He may have another outing on the Flat before bidding to add to his National Hunt tally here next month . |
18 | For the second lot , he may have another code which I do n't have or he just knows them by heart . |
19 | ‘ He may have some kind of interest in you for the moment , little make-up lady , but , believe me , it wo n't last . |
20 | If Picon 's experience at his last job , in San Antonio , is any indication , he may have some cause for optimism . |
21 | In practice , he may have several females within his territory , and so has a dilemma : he ca n't guard them all at once . |
22 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
23 | Please note that the official bird recorder for Gladhouse , , regularly walks round the reservoir , usually a Thursday and/or Sunday and he may cause some disturbance on those days . |
24 | He may derive some support from the statement of Templeman LJ in Amalgamated Estates Ltd v Joystretch Manufacturing Ltd : I think it is a great pity that any landlord should require , or that any tenant should accept , a provision making time of the essence when the consequences are so onerous . |
25 | Robert thinks he may need some help . |
26 | Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long . |
27 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
28 | I know that the Foreign Secretary is a literary man and he may read this speech . |
29 | What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order . |
30 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |