Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] ought [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 2 | ‘ I think there 's something I ought to say but I 'm afraid it is n't , well , gentlemanly . ’ |
| 3 | I think that 's perhaps something I ought to explain first and foremost . |
| 4 | ‘ Cheryl , there 's something I ought to tell you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hrun , ’ he said quickly , ‘ there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 6 | David — there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 7 | There 's something I ought to have sorted out , I can sense it , but I need to think . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you ever get the feeling you 'll never know everything you ought to know ? ’ |
| 9 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 10 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's something you ought to know and it could n't wait . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ There 's something you ought to know . ’ |
| 14 | There 's something you ought to understand if you do n't already . |
| 15 | " I 'm the one who ought to get angry , " said Fiver . |
| 16 | As well as making quick botch jobs of things that need careful repair if they are not to fall apart again next week , teachers , when they confront the impossibility of doing everything they ought to do head on , are faced with making some very tough priority decisions . |
| 17 | Lord Merlyn-Rees — Home Secretary from 1976-79 — told the programme : ‘ I do believe as time goes on , watching the great influence of television on children , that they begin to believe that the normal life they lead is not normal , that what they see on the television and on the film is something they ought to emulate . ’ |
| 18 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 19 | PAMELA : Leave me and I will do anything I ought to do . |
| 20 | Have you ever known her try and get out of anything she ought to do ? |