Example sentences of "[noun] think they ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , given things being the way they are , who 's to say they 're the loonies because they do n't do things the way Joe Punter thinks they ought to be done ? |
| 2 | people think they ought to do something for you . |
| 3 | Under new arrangements , local authorities are penalized by loss of grant if they spend too much — that is , more than the government thinks they ought to spend . |
| 4 | Roland thought they ought to look for somewhere else , but held back from proposing it , because he was not the breadwinner , and because he did n't want to do anything so decisive , in terms of himself and Val . |
| 5 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 6 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |