Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Bring him down to see us , " they say , " and we 'll tell him how he can and ought to claim for you . " |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll tell you who you ought to fall in love with , Clare . ’ |
| 4 | Any particular drugs that you ought to acquire in readiness for an outbreak here ? ’ |
| 5 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 6 | You ought to see about Jackie getting there |
| 7 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 8 | The history teacher ought to go beyond the generalities of support for parliamentary democracy and liberty to help young people understand the changing nature of society , with its changing patterns of employment and unemployment , its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nature with the changing status of women , and the ways in which moral attitudes and beliefs are being affected by science and technology . |
| 9 | the properties of non-metals er so we ought to go through er non-metals and make the corresponding set of notes to the the reactions of metals . |
| 10 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 11 | " We ought to go at once , " said Fiver . |
| 12 | He said I really ought to go for it . |
| 13 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit . |
| 16 | Balancing the tray , to which Mrs Darrell had kindly added the plate containing those cream cakes which she had not managed to devour , she heard her say to Dr Neil , ‘ You really ought to go into society again , my dear . |
| 17 | On Friday and Saturday tea-times , we would sometimes fantasize about which pub we ought to go to and what we would eat afterwards . |
| 18 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 19 | ‘ We ought to go to another town , ’ says one . |
| 20 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 21 | ‘ He ought to go to Sanderstown right away and have an operation for arthrodesis by a proper orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 22 | You ought to go to Yelton yourself and see the privation there , but I do n't suppose you could walk as far as your gate , never mind finding a horse strong enough to carry you . |
| 23 | You ought to go to the Empress Monday nights . |
| 24 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 25 | ‘ You said I was to tell you if I thought Oliver ought to go to another school . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , I think we ought to go to Santa Barbara . |
| 27 | Do you think you ought to go to the doctors again ? |
| 28 | Well everybody ought to go to the dentist if they want to keep their teeth nice and healthy . |
| 29 | Which is also why I feel that he ought to go to Ironcrest as well . |
| 30 | This thing you 've got , it ought to go to Devon . |