Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically . |
| 2 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 3 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 4 | This series is really about schools , but I think I ought to close by giving you and opportunity of saying something about universities if you want to . |
| 5 | My Lords , having drafted this speech , I then had the pleasure and advantage of reading in draft the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and concluded that I ought to refer to the company fraud cases which were canvassed before your Lordships , lest it be thought that the Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 statement of principle is inconsistent with a proper approach to such cases . |
| 6 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
| 7 | At the risk of sounding pompous — for this was very basic medicine — I thought I ought to explain to Miss Sowerby just what I was thinking of . |
| 8 | ‘ Lucky me , ’ I ought to say at this point with whatever the typographical symbol for a wink and a leer is . |
| 9 | I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt . |
| 10 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 11 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 12 | He went on : ‘ I feel that , as a minister of a parish having no other resident gentleman , I ought to act as a guardian of my own poor ; and if 00 should neglect any opportunity , which the Lord may place within my reach … |
| 13 | I ought to go to the party . |
| 14 | He later explained his reasons in English Farming , and Why I Turned It Up ( 1894 ) in the preface to which he wrote : ‘ I can remember the time when people used to talk to me about farming and explain how I ought to go about it . |
| 15 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 16 | I ought to go round this side . |
| 17 | I ought to knock on the door of this hospital and say , Let me in . |
| 18 | ‘ I just think I ought to look for a useful job . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I ought to expect to be bullied . |
| 20 | " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer . |
| 21 | I ought to write to her at some point . |
| 22 | I suppose I ought to start by saying , what 's up doc ? |
| 23 | Someone said I ought to think about getting a good night 's sleep . |
| 24 | I think I ought to check on my motor-bike patrol . ’ |
| 25 | So I think I ought to forget about dissidency . |
| 26 | ‘ Is there anything else like that I ought to know about him ? ‘ |
| 27 | ‘ And is there anything else I ought to know about you ? ’ |
| 28 | Christmas is coming and he thinks I ought to know about some little joints called Tiffany 's and Bloomingdale 's . |
| 29 | Diana said I looked ill , and needed a holiday at the seaside , but St John thought I ought to concentrate on more serious work , and gave me even more Hindustani exercises to do . |
| 30 | I must to go to the pub and see |