Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She ought to have waited , just as I did . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , he believed she ought to have done without them for vanity 's sake , as he did . |
| 4 | I suspected that Gillian was getting rid of Wyatt as a way of breaking with her father ( who did n't even come to the wedding , incidentally ) and pointing out to her Mum what she ought to have done years before . |
| 5 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 6 | Recognising the hopelessness of her situation , she had resolved to do what she ought to have done years ago , and systematically banished him from her heart . |
| 7 | ‘ She ought to have seen he only wanted her money , and refused him , ’ said Retty . |
| 8 | As Gabriel trailed behind her boss 's resolute stride she ought to have felt angry at the words of abuse , but she knew that they represented Rose 's own fury and fear and she felt sympathy . |
| 9 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 10 | She ought to have recognized Harry , that woollen hat , the jacket . |
| 11 | But perhaps she ought to have made sure she told him to see his own doctor as soon as he got home ? |
| 12 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 13 | She ought to have guessed . |
| 14 | And one aspect of his character she ought to have guessed at was his total loyalty to family . |
| 15 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 16 | She ought to have worn high heels . |
| 17 | But later that night , lying awake in bed , Clara found herself trembling , partly from fright , and partly from the knowledge that perhaps she ought to have gone . |
| 18 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 19 | She ought to have stayed at home , or gone to stay with her boyfriend in Halesowen . |
| 20 | She ought to have hated the child she was carrying , it being the cause of her return to squalor after the effort she had made to rise above it , but since she 'd felt it move she could n't reject it . |
| 21 | She ought to have known . |
| 22 | She ought to have known there would be trouble . |
| 23 | But of course she ought to have known that martin Jones would find out in the end . |
| 24 | She ought to have known that only matters of business would have brought him to her door . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ronni wondered , as she flung some T-shirts and things into a bag , if she ought to have put up a stronger fight against Guido . |
| 27 | ( Simon was drinking quite heavily then , even Mr James said she ought to have had allowed for that . ) |
| 28 | She felt she ought to have bought a card . |
| 29 | ‘ She ought to have bought an ordinary ticket and donated the rest to the pension fund . |
| 30 | Presumably he thought she ought to have let him into her room to make love to her ! |