Example sentences of "[pers pn] ought do is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 2 | What she ought to do is , I know what I 'd do is leave Anthony and Maria and they can put them down and go and see |
| 3 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What you ought to do is teach these girls some manners , ’ the American muttered crossly . |
| 5 | My feeling is that what we ought to do is preserve areas of countryside without having to have this excuse for doing it . |
| 6 | I think I think what we ought to do is we ought to point out |
| 7 | And I think what we ought to do is have another look at you now . |
| 8 | So what I think we ought to do is — ’ |
| 9 | erm , skips , and I think what we ought to do is , if you can travel , deter people from having skips at home , and I , I think if , if you set up there , you 'd be |
| 10 | Em , I mean that 's good at way I am I think , that what we ought to do is to seek to erm , suggest to the Commission that York should take more of the Commission 's total workload , I E to erm take some work from Coventry , and possibly also do a compensating transfer between London and Coventry . |
| 11 | and er I bloody , I said , I said in the end I 've , what we ought to do is lop some part of their anatomy off , like a little digit or something then we can prove they 've been in |
| 12 | The idea of what they ought to do is more subtle and will come to them only if they love and trust their parents enough to want to be like them . |