Example sentences of "he ought have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a scold — whenever she was near him he felt in the wrong and wondered anxiously what it was he ought to have done . |
| 2 | Rob Bettinson , the director , has deduced that he ought to have these images plus disc-jockeys , radio commercials , midwestern hops , but he does n't seem to know why . |
| 3 | Part of the Heseltine strategy is , no doubt , based on the calculation that these debts one day can be collected — and certainly , within the Conservative Party 's electoral college of MPs , he ought to have established some impressive lines of credit . |
| 4 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 5 | ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sure , ’ said Crocker , ‘ he ought to have had his own being a war baby and a cog in the welfare state . |
| 7 | Perhaps he ought to have realised it was too soon , or his superiors ought to have realised . |
| 8 | He ought to have been off somewhere else on a shoot by now . |
| 9 | My husband feels he ought to have someone else on the side . |
| 10 | Well , he should be ashamed of himself , he ought to have better things to think about . ’ |
| 11 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 12 | I suppose he ought to have been very practical , from that background , but nothing was further from the truth . |
| 13 | Palmerston then interrupted , saying that he ought to have consulted the House first . |
| 14 | ‘ Aye , ’ she said undeterred , ‘ and He ought to have known better . ’ |
| 15 | He ought to have blinded her too , the bitch . |
| 16 | But , at the moment , it did strike him that he ought to have thought more about Céline 's situation . |
| 17 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 18 | Feeling he has n't done things he ought to have done — has n't fulfilled his promise . |
| 19 | ‘ He ought to have some painkillers , ’ said Phil , ‘ and we ought to get some fluids into him . |
| 20 | An obscure feeling that he ought to have a key to this house made him resentful . |
| 21 | He ought to have a feeling of reverence for the beautiful things his great-uncle had entrusted to him . |
| 22 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 23 | Alongside rich , corrupt and irresistible Sir Jack Falstaff is the young Prince Hal , wandering far from his true royal path , mixing with thieves and wastrels when he ought to have been studying to be a king . |
| 24 | He ought to have been reminded of their joint suffering before he committed his fault . |
| 25 | Is it necessary to show that the defendant subjectively knew of the dishonest design or merely that he ought to have known ? |
| 26 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 27 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 28 | He ought to have waited to fire one really effective salvo at close range . |
| 29 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 30 | He ought to have known better , but he was blinded by his own sex-centredness . |