Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 2 | I told him all about himself and what he ought to do in life . |
| 3 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 4 | If he takes into account matters which he ought not to take into account , or fails to take into account the matters which he ought to take into account , then his decision can be overridden by the courts . |
| 5 | It was true what they had said ; he ought to get to bed and rest ; ought to take a break from his duties for a day or so and let Li Yuan take up his burden as Regent . |
| 6 | He ought to feel at home . |
| 7 | Where , as will normally be the case , the breach is such as must in the ordinary course of business inflict damage on the plaintiff , he may succeed without proof of any particular damage . |
| 8 | Would the Chancellor reconsider that decision because , when he next goes to the Duchy of Lancaster he may go to confession and admit to the untruths that are being told by his party in party-political broadcasts ? |
| 9 | NOW that Tony Bland has died , we pray that he may rest in peace , and that his parents and family may be able to grieve in private for him . |
| 10 | For Tony , that he may rest in peace , and for his family for their strengthening and peace . |
| 11 | To his friends he may speak in Gaelic rather than in English . |
| 12 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 13 | Next year he may run for president . |
| 14 | the detainer is tendered sufficient money to satisfy any claim he may have for damage and expenses in respect of the straying livestock . |
| 15 | The same result can be achieved slightly differently by requiring the innocent party to accept repair or replacement in satisfaction of any claim it might have : if the goods prove defective in any way the Seller will replace them and the Buyer shall accept that replacement in satisfaction of any claims he may have in respect of the defects . |
| 16 | I think he may have in mind the view advanced by John Stuart Mill in An Examination of Sir William Hamilton 's Philosophy . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) In a default action where no hearing or pre-trial review date has been fixed , or Ord 17 , r 11 ( automatic directions ) applies and before pleadings are closed under Ord 17 , r 11(a) , he may issue without leave ( Ord 12 , r 2(b) and ( c ) . |
| 18 | If he considers that an inquest may not be necessary , he may act under section 19(1) . |
| 19 | It is open to the senior police officer present to impose conditions under this section whilst the march is in process , and on the same grounds as those on which he may act in advance . |
| 20 | Every party should , so far as practicable , apply for any particular direction he may desire on notice to the district judge and the other parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 – 3 ) . |
| 21 | There 's a chance he may get in touch with you . ’ |
| 22 | In adulthood , he may over-react to rejection from peers — a rebuff from someone he hoped to date perhaps . |
| 23 | And just as the dimensions of a city seen from afar belie their true nature , so the soul seeking contemplation " if he may come within citee of contemplacioun he mikel more he first " ( 25.93r. – 239 ) . |
| 24 | Tho' he should dream of Dumpling all the way |
| 25 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 26 | He should bear in mind the fact that all mining legislation has been the result of hindsight . |
| 27 | commitment , he should bear in mind that the shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer has said that that is an aspiration and not a commitment . |
| 28 | The family historian who wishes to use early Dissenting records should consult D. J. Steel , Sources for Nonconformist Genealogy and Family History ( 1972 ) , but he should bear in mind that seventeenth and early-eighteenth century Nonconformists often used the baptism , marriage and burial services of the Established Church and that these events will be recorded in the Church of England registers . |
| 29 | It is hardly surprising , therefore , that he should view with dismay the return to a managed exchange rate as part of the policy of Europeanisation of the British economy . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |