Example sentences of "[pron] ought to [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 2 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 3 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 4 | I suppose you 'll be off with them to the theatre again , when you ought to be with Charles . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think you ought to be at home yourself , ’ he answered . |
| 6 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 7 | You ought to be behind bars , that 's where you ought to be ! |
| 8 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 9 | It seems to me that there ought to be to edges to a campaign to make medicines safer . |
| 10 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 11 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 12 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 13 | He was n't sure just how worried he ought to be by Therese Aschmann . |
| 14 | Turning 30 , 40 or 50 can be the start of something great Sex with a younger man — it ought to be on prescription ! |
| 15 | If we are sensible it ought to be against San Marino in February . ’ |
| 16 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 17 | For me , I think the last paragraph in my paper in the Speaker of the week before last [ ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ ] was pretty good ; but it ought to be in verse . |
| 18 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |