Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 2 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 3 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 4 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 7 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 8 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 9 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 10 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 11 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
| 12 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 13 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 14 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 15 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 16 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 17 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 18 | You were the one who said it ought to be eight o'clock . |
| 19 | Oh she said I 'm ever so sorry I was miles away , I said yeah we 've just said that , I said you never even heard us , so I said what you , you ca n't understand why you pay too much tax , she said no I know why I pay too much tax she said but more she said I used to be in business she said and I 'm on basic rate of tax , so I said yeah I 've had some of that , so she said what basic rate of tax , I said yeah where I 've come so , it 's a funny thing she said , I was saying to Carol the other day , she said erm , she said what a difference them blokes you work with , so I said yeah , I said I 'm always saying that about these so she said oh she said er |
| 20 | ‘ You said he ought to be shot . |
| 21 | She supposed she ought to be thankful that she and Holly had spent several contented years together before things had become prickly . |
| 22 | She supposed she ought to be pleased at this fresh evidence of Luke 's sensitivity . |
| 23 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 24 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 25 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 26 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 27 | Slithering north in the rain the next day , he thought he ought to be commended for speaking the truth , for what it was worth , which was little . |
| 28 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |
| 29 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 30 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |