Example sentences of "[pron] thought [pers pn] ought to be " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
2 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
3 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
4 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
5 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
6 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
7 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
8 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
9 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
10 | Slithering north in the rain the next day , he thought he ought to be commended for speaking the truth , for what it was worth , which was little . |