Example sentences of "[pron] ought to [be] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to be in bed , he thought , not worrying myself about such things . |
| 2 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 3 | She thought she knew what it would be like to find yourself in Boston when you ought to be in Chicago . |
| 4 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 5 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |