Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 2 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 3 | He ought to take more care . |
| 4 | Having acquired a wife , Leslie began to think that he ought to take some steps towards securing our future . |
| 5 | Well , he should be ashamed of himself , he ought to have better things to think about . ’ |
| 6 | Now I ca n't account for that , because he ought to have strong ones did n't he , if he did all that stuff there ? |
| 7 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 'll to have another go ! |
| 10 | My right hon. and learned Friend said that he would do all that he could to resist those directives . |
| 11 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 12 | The fact that Bevin , the leading figure in British trade unionism , had joined the government as Minister of Labour and was doing what he could to limit industrial conflict encouraged the sense among the public that the unions as a whole were behaving responsibly in the nation 's crisis . |
| 13 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 14 | He used to wear yellow ties and trendily-cut suits in eye-catching colours . |
| 15 | He used to collect old newspapers for fish-and-chip shops . |
| 16 | And as soon as she puts her head down out for the for the dog do you see , fighting , he used to put this V on her back , right at the back of the the the neck . |
| 17 | He used to take some wool , but mainly he was there to sell and his cart carried samples . |
| 18 | He used to take whole concepts , characters and moods from the flatties . |
| 19 | He used to take this affair round various conferences and demonstrate to all and sundry that the crystal could be repeatedly bent to a strain of 2 per cent which is equivalent to a stress of about 600,000 p.s.i . |
| 20 | ‘ He used to watch most nights , apparently , ’ said William . |
| 21 | And he used to go to these houses Dunoon and them and er all the way down and around the promenade around the south parade and er and he used to go these houses with all these and then there were some er black and white minstrels in the valley . |
| 22 | And there was catches on the chair and you used to be ab A lad used to stand there and he used to pull a lever and he used to level these catches and the tubs would run off and then as two ran off he 'd let it go and it would catch the empties you see then . |
| 23 | He used to lift this door up with his stick and just put it inside and light it . |
| 24 | Well , he used to do other jobs as well ! |
| 25 | You remember , he used to do those tricks with matches . ’ |
| 26 | He said I used to laugh at my Dad when he used to do these quizzes but when |
| 27 | The weather was bitterly cold , and because there was no heating in Dana 's little room he used to spend all day , and nearly every night , in my warm apartment . |
| 28 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 29 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 30 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |