Example sentences of "he [modal v] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it ai n't surprisin' , with 'is own wife callin' 'im a sinner , and tellin' 'im 'e ought to wash more … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I said he ought to give most of it away . |
| 4 | By the time of the World Council at Amsterdam the question began to come into Ramsey 's head what he ought to do next . |
| 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 | If the right hon. Gentleman does not know what circumstances are necessary for long-term prosperity and jobs , and that they are basically low inflation and a stable economy , he ought to learn that speedily . |
| 9 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 10 | Well , he should be ashamed of himself , he ought to have better things to think about . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 13 | Speak to my wine merchant , dear boy , he ought to have some of that left . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He ought to marry one of you , ’ murmured Tess . |
| 16 | He knew he ought to feel guilty about Cora-Beth , to whom he had not yet written the promised letter , but with a telegram already despatched to Mrs Appleby , advising her of his visit and that he would be bringing a young lady , he told himself that it was too late to change the arrangement . |
| 17 | Thiercelin realized that he ought to feel annoyed , and up to a point he did . |
| 18 | He 'll to have another go ! |
| 19 | My right hon. and learned Friend said that he would do all that he could to resist those directives . |
| 20 | He did all he could to stop this . ’ |
| 21 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He did everything he could to make sure that they were never alone . |
| 24 | And he used to cite several different means of Grace . |
| 25 | He used to smoke sixty cigarettes a day and says he 's brought it down to between fifteen and twenty roll-ups . |
| 26 | He used to wear yellow ties and trendily-cut suits in eye-catching colours . |
| 27 | He used to swear blind he saw his mother standing at the end of the bed . |
| 28 | And that 's where he moved from here over the road and after then he used to have his own , see , he had a slaughterhouse built at the back , see , he done away with the slaughterhouse down the piste and he used to kill all his stuff there . |
| 29 | He used to collect old newspapers for fish-and-chip shops . |
| 30 | The barn where he used to sleep rough is now empty … and for his mother there is relief |