Example sentences of "[pron] really [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really ought to be going , ’ said Penelope , ‘ what with having a long journey and work tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I really ought to be more careful . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Now I really ought to be getting back to the apartment . ’ |
| 4 | Inevitably the system has not been rigorously followed ; thus in the Great Bear the brightest star is not Alpha , but Epsilon , which really ought to be fifth , while in Orion , Rigel ( Beta Orionis ) is brighter than Betelgeux ( Alpha ) . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | She really ought to be back by now . ’ |
| 7 | She really ought to be thinking of work instead of calling Fernando Serra 's bluff . |
| 8 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On the other hand we got into a discussion yesterday as to whether the medical profession is n't devoting too much of its energy just to keeping people alive who really ought to be dead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 14 | You 've got to put the clef at the beginning of it you really ought to . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | But we really ought to er |
| 21 | You see we used to think of the generations of man twenty five year intervals three , we really ought to be thinking of four . |
| 22 | But a lot of people would say of course that it is of such importance , that we really ought to be up to date with exactly what 's going on , after all this is happening on our behalf . |
| 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 | Now Canada is where young men hang out when they really ought to be in Vietnam . |
| 25 | joined in too and that they they really ought to be invited to put the s in the frame as well . |
| 26 | As soon as those are published , employers are put on notice that there are steps they really ought to be taking . |
| 27 | These houses , they really ought to be there . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If the moment is before a lunch on the plane , it really ought to be a Bloody Mary . |
| 30 | This is officially the last of the Zodiacal constellations , though since it now contains the Vernal Equinox it really ought to be the first . |