Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis .
2 He ought to see a vet . ’
3 Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home .
4 It was to tell the head of state to whom he was accredited that he ought to leave the country .
5 He ought to take a riding-whip to that wife of his and then bed her over and over again until she 's with child . "
6 In 1250 it was discovered that the lands which Aubrey , a forester of fee of Whittlewood Forest , held by serjeanty in Northamptonshire , had been alienated in part , and that ‘ the serjeanty of Peter of Minton in Shropshire , for which he ought to keep the forest of Long Mynd and the hays of Bushmoor and Haycrust ’ had been ‘ alienated in part by divers parcels ’ .
7 Even Mr. Harding , who in ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ is described as the sweetest gentleman and best Christian ever known in Barchester , ‘ felt that he ought to rebuke the lady ’ .
8 He also considered the alternative submission that , pursuant to section 78 of the Act of 1984 , he ought to exclude the evidence because , in the words of section 78 :
9 Maybe he ought to have a shower or something .
10 If the hon. Gentleman is seriously concerned about unemployment — — he ought to have a word with his hon. Friends on the Select Committee who tried to cover up the consequences of his policy .
11 He ought to have a licence for eyelashes like that !
12 An obscure feeling that he ought to have a key to this house made him resentful .
13 He ought to have a feeling of reverence for the beautiful things his great-uncle had entrusted to him .
14 It can be a problem if , for example , the groom speaks no English : either he , or the bride and her family , may feel he ought to have the opportunity to speak at his own wedding , or that he has a duty to honour his hosts by thanking them publicly .
15 When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet .
16 Charles thought he ought to show an interest in more mundane , soldierly matters .
17 It 's almost as if Rene Kerfante were to say that he ought to tell The Correspondent not to use his typefaces , but they need to get something , I do n't know , more coherent though .
18 Nothing would , nothing could go wrong today ; he ought to find a betting shop and put some money on a horse , he felt so lucky , so good , so in tune .
19 He was also a member of the advisory committee on aliens in Britain , and did what he could to ease the lot of refugees who managed to escape Nazi tyranny .
20 Something permanent had clearly been created in Virginia and , shortly after coming to the throne in 1625 , Charles I did what he could to stabilize the situation by declaring it a royal colony and taking into his own hands the power to appoint the governor .
21 If papal provisions worked in some instances under John XXII to the disadvantage of the king , the pope endeavoured where he could to satisfy the king 's wishes , so that at the end of the reign far more bishoprics were occupied by civil servants than in 1307 .
22 When the cheque was dishonoured the seller did all he could to trace the rogue and car and he informed the police .
23 AYRTON SENNA did all he could to keep the championship open by yesterday winning the Spanish Grand Prix which , after a week of accusations and exclusions , was something of an anti-climax .
24 He protested to Law that he was doing everything possible to hold Lancashire steady , but he was actually doing all he could to keep the issue alive , including the sending of a questionnaire to all the Lancashire constituencies .
25 So Noah ran through the streets as quickly as he could to fetch the beadle .
26 Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal .
27 And he did all he could to make the food bad , except what he ate himself .
28 He had to find all the time he could to write the play , even if it meant neglecting other matters , not least because it would be his first composition since the award of the Nobel Prize .
29 Yeah oh he 's er what happened to him , right he used to like a drink when he were here .
30 Mr used to open up his dragons and start his steam engine and driving the organ , and he used to give an organ recital every wakes ' Sunday night for the cot fund .
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