Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations . |
| 2 | Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons . |
| 3 | ‘ He ought to go to Sanderstown right away and have an operation for arthrodesis by a proper orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 4 | Which is also why I feel that he ought to go to Ironcrest as well . |
| 5 | Well he ought to talk to Nicola about that . |
| 6 | That evening Chamberlain telephoned to Baldwin in Aix and told hint that he ought to return to London . |
| 7 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 8 | I told him all about himself and what he ought to do in life . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He he ought to know about it though |
| 12 | " I think he ought to know about this . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's so good at bottling things up , he ought to work in a ketchup factory . ’ |
| 15 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
| 16 | So did that mean he ought to forget about Leila ? |
| 17 | He ought to pounce on that . |
| 18 | She felt very strongly that he ought to want to . |
| 19 | He ought to feel at home . |
| 20 | He even wondered if he ought to suggest to Paul Lexington that that sentence was put on a hoarding outside the theatre , but did n't quite have the nerve . |
| 21 | He may fail as a result of natural disasters but no one can blame him for that . |
| 22 | The voter may of course reject the outcome ; e.g. , with local public goods he may migrate to another community ( in this sense , the minority may have an element of veto power — see Lecture 17 ) . |
| 23 | He may think in terms of bits of equipment , flows of material , flows of energy or flows of information . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In this way he may succeed in attracting the attention of the predator away from the vulnerable fry . |
| 26 | By accepting whatever property he may inherit from his father . |
| 27 | In America , obscenity law protects the reader or viewer against harms he may inflict on himself , by whatever process those harms may be inflicted . |
| 28 | Where a firm enters into speculative trades for a customer it would be well advised to document any evidence that the customer has the financial ability to absorb any losses which he may incur without undue detriment to his standard of living . |
| 29 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 30 | 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 ? |