Example sentences of "that she [vb mod] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood there , staring , immobile at first , before the riot of flesh and lights and people and advertisements , and she wondered what it was that she was supposed to fear , because she could not truly fear anything , in such well-lit company : and she wondered why she was not afraid , when they had all told her , all of them , the Party Organizer and Janice and her upbringing , that she ought to fear . |
| 2 | I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit . |
| 3 | we 'll take , we will take that she ought to go |
| 4 | She 's , she 's let go when she knew that she ought to let go . |
| 5 | She supposed that she ought to spend more time at the place , but was always thankful when she was once again on the road back to London . |
| 6 | The old man was paralysed now after a stroke and she supposed that she ought to feel sorry for him lying there in his hospital bed , useless as a felled tree , mouth slavering , only the angry eyes moving in impotent fury from face to watching face . |
| 7 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 8 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 9 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 10 | Isabel Lavender , now sixty-eight years old , sat before the mirror , the pretty amethyst brooch at her neck , and felt that she ought to have it , for it was owed to her , it was a little enough thing to covet . |
| 11 | And it was such an obvious explanation that she ought to have thought of it herself , but for some reason it had never for one moment crossed her mind . |
| 12 | In a world where physiognomy was a respected practice , Leapor 's appearance may have given the Chauncys grounds to believe that the kitchen maid really was a person of no significance and that she ought to learn her station . |
| 13 | Nenna was struck by the fact that she ought to write to Louise , who was married to a successful business man . |
| 14 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 15 | I 've told Nenna time and again that she ought to get hold of some sort of reliable chap , an ex-Naval chippie would be the right sort , just to spend the odd day on board and put everything to rights . |
| 16 | She was vaguely aware that she ought to offer congratulations , but for some reason she did n't feel in a congratulatory frame of mind . |
| 17 | She felt embarrassed , felt that she ought to remove her hand , but did not know how . |
| 18 | During the shooting of the 1935 film Anna Karenina , Greta Garbo took such a violent dislike to her co-star , Fredric March , that she used to munch garlic before filming their love scenes . |
| 19 | Oh , yes , well I mean I o obviously I When she worked She used to get up I 'll tell you another thing that she used to do . |
| 20 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 21 | Rose , now 66 , explained that she used to visit the doctor regularly as her thighs would continually rub against each other and actually bleed because they were so big . |
| 22 | And you told me that she used to use a crochet hook . |
| 23 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 24 | I 've just seen her going that way , and I 've just seen skinny Mick that she used to go out with a she had baby to , coming this way . |
| 25 | Anyway , she 's got the hots for this feller down there that she used to go out with he 's about forty eight or something like that but She pref , preferred |
| 26 | The stockpile of grief continued to grow unrecognized in the business of her life , disguised by the use of prescribed and acquired sedatives and tranquillizers that she used to cope with her ‘ nerves ’ . |
| 27 | These she reads with the kind of pure , trance-like attention that she used to give , as a child , to the stories of Enid Blyton . |
| 28 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 29 | An introductory note says that she used to read prayers very slowly with frequent pauses , which led almost instantaneously to prayer . |
| 30 | Mum told me that she used to help with this before leaving school and recalled just what hard work it was . |