Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [modal v] to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the Trust got Brownsea the regulations about the discharge of sewage changes , they had endless trouble with the water supply , and now they 're having to find £300,000 to repair the sea wall , so I feel that , instead of being praised for being associated with getting Brownsea , I probably ought to be cursed for putting the Trust to so much expense . |
| 2 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | Yes I often used to be accused of being Welsh but it is different . |
| 5 | I respectfully agree with the judge that that would be an inappropriate way of achieving the result which clearly ought to be achieved , which is that a child abducted in the way this little boy was should be able to return home pending a decision as to whether he lives with his father or with his mother . |
| 6 | The pharmacien came out from behind his counter , sat her down , removed her sandal with the tenderness of a foot-fetishist , examined her heel , cleaned it with a piece of gauze , stood up , turned to me gravely , as if there were something which really ought to be kept from my wife , and quietly explained , ‘ That , Monsieur , is a blister . ’ |
| 7 | Not only is it ably led by the shrewd Gordon Taylor ( who perhaps ought to be running the FA ) , the players ' union also has a record which other unions would be proud of . |
| 8 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 9 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |
| 10 | Let me put it to you this way you know as well as I do people who really ought to be doing something else other than teaching . |
| 11 | One megabyte is totally inadequate for running Windows ( version 3.1 requires a minimum of 2Mb ) and you really ought to be thinking about slamming in the RAM . |
| 12 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 13 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 14 | And another thing , you really ought to be venturing further afield ; travelling or doing something more challenging now and therefore perhaps you need a gentle prod to remind you that life is only , after all , what you make it . |
| 15 | doing it Roger is that we sit here and we say to our clients , ah but you really ought to be coming to us because we 're railway experts . |
| 16 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 17 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 18 | We really ought to be rehearsing this stuff , well finalising the scripts after half term . |
| 19 | We really ought to be going to some to truss . |
| 20 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 21 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 22 | joined in too and that they they really ought to be invited to put the s in the frame as well . |
| 23 | ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble . |
| 24 | about necessarily taking it , but I think they certainly ought to be made aware of sort of what it involves and and what it really means . |
| 25 | If you were last the food would be cold , because it all used to be laid out waiting for you to collect . |
| 26 | It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally . |
| 27 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 28 | It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface . |
| 29 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 30 | I would to our officers they should not grant another contract to Borough Council until they start to use the correct machines for doing the work and I hope that that message now has got across to the cou county surveyor and he really ought to be talking to Borough Council to find out what they 're doing about it . |