Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [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 added that he may appoint independent assessors to review the viability of the 10 pits that have already been closed . |
| 10 | In the case of a Japanese company wishing to invest in this country , whereas hitherto the attractions of the United Kingdom economy , along with the English language , which is important in Japanese investment , have been significant , for the future we are issuing a warning to the Japanese investor to be careful ; he may not be able to price across Europe in the future , he may experience high interest rates in this country and he may find it much harder to trade into the Community , because if we are not participating in the single currency we may not get all the benefits of the single market either . |
| 11 | DEAN JONES fears his Test career may be over and he may quit Australian cricket . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He may prefer still mineral water to tap water , so a bottle can be kept near him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He may give more weight to pattern than to vocabulary : how to say things rather than what to say . |
| 17 | He may suffer financial penalties . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If one doctor treats condition ‘ y ’ with therapy ‘ x ’ , he may observe clinical improvement in the absence of any real treatment effect ; if this experience repeats itself , he is destined to become an enthusiast for therapy ‘ x ’ . |
| 20 | He may want one kind of person . |
| 21 | He may face fresh charges . |
| 22 | He may oppose this measure but he should not pre-empt the results of the environmental assessment . |
| 23 | If a horse is very spooky and really does not ever settle down , there is a possibility that he may have defective eye-sight . |
| 24 | ‘ He may have other faults , ’ pointed out the Substitute , ‘ that she did n't care to mention . |
| 25 | Pension schemes are vital to many of our constituents , and I should have thought that they would be of equal importance to Conservative Members in Scotland , who may soon have to look to their own pension schemes although the Minister has reassured me that he may have other arrangements . |
| 26 | He may have proportional representation , or he may not ; he wo n't say . |
| 27 | If the law grants him a defence in these circumstances , then he may have sexual intercourse with her and use violence upon her with impunity . |
| 28 | He may have more tax to pay if he does not survive seven years ( IHTA 1984 , s7(4) ) . |
| 29 | God in Christ , through taking on a particular instance of humanity , shares with all human beings the universal , humanity , and it is that which is of significance , even though he may have different particularities from some other individuals . |
| 30 | He may have another outing on the Flat before bidding to add to his National Hunt tally here next month . |