Example sentences of "[verb] that he [modal v] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it has been argued that he ought to be responsible for guests or licensees on his land . |
| 2 | I , far from it but I think here we should be encouraging him or , or highlighting the , the problem that he 's got that he ought to be looking at . |
| 3 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 4 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 5 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 6 | Mr Crump read Hope 's card several times and knew that he ought to be impressed . |
| 7 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |