Example sentences of "you ought to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wo n't tell anyone , ’ said Gabriel , ‘ but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to be listening to the grass roots and saying : ‘ Look , we 've started doing the tests , we 've found they are n't working as they should . |
| 3 | You ought to be stood up against a wall , you ought . |
| 4 | just when you ought to be thinking about something else your pride insists on your memory producing some unimportant thing or other . |
| 5 | Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 7 | You ought to be dressing dolls Like other sisters . |
| 8 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 9 | ‘ within the hearing or sight of a person ’ This can be proved by observing the reactions of passers-by or persons to whom the insults etc. were directed , e.g. ‘ I saw two old ladies hurry past looking disgusted and saying , ‘ You ought to be locked up ’ ' . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , you cheeky cuss , ’ she said , ‘ I might be poor and 'omeless , but I 'm respectable , I am , and I ai n't goin' to listen to you talkin' about my bottom , you ought to be locked up for even mentioning it . ’ |
| 11 | You ought to be locked up , like Casanova . |
| 12 | just for fun , you know but I 'm not a believer in using your fists , you ought to be using your brain to teach with but there were no there are no sanctions , if you say you must stay behind after school , you have to send a letter home and half the parents will write back and say my son or daughter is not staying after school and that is that ! |
| 13 | They can help to identify which companies you ought to be looking at , they may have a database of relevant information , and if you are looking at information-gathering from a number of companies they can save you time and effort if they do the legwork . |
| 14 | What you effectively have in the AIS part of Skymaster is a selective scan of much of the current information you ought to be looking at if you 're planning a flight in the UK or near Europe . |
| 15 | If you 're looking for faster , purer isolation , you ought to be looking at the Nycomed range — as detailed in our brand new Separation Products literature . |
| 16 | So it 's , if you 're in , you 've still got to think about security and you ought to be locking your doors , if you can . |
| 17 | You ought to be reading your bible saying your prayers going to church and getting in touch with the boss . |
| 18 | Mm , mm its one of the great arguments from the old fashioned sort of religion , that you could turn , you could definitely turn to people and say why are you leaning on me so hard , for all this to fought , you ought to be reading your bible , saying your prayers , going to church and getting in touch with the boss why I laughed when they were saying that Terry Waite would need counselling , I bet that Terry Waite was praying his head off and he 'd memorised masses of the bible which he would be reciting to himself probably set himself two o'clock every afternoon , I remember what I can , book of you know I do n't suppose he 'd needed any counselling , he 'd probably do better counselling other people . |
| 19 | Let's face it , if you ca n't make par on a par-5 to win , you ought to be shot . ’ |
| 20 | You ought to be writing detective stories ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You ought to be meeting more boys your own age , not letches like Bas and the twins . |
| 22 | ‘ I think you ought to be examined by a doctor , Maria . |
| 23 | You ought to be see |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't you think you ought to be asking some ? ’ |
| 25 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 26 | You ought to be thanking me for being so considerate . ’ |
| 27 | From my observance , you 're not exactly overjoyed , although in view of all you 've said about Robert you ought to be rejoicing . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sure you ought to be sitting down , ’ Julia said as soon as the introductions had been made . |
| 29 | They are not intended to be narrowly restrictive , ‘ only-possible ’ solutions : instead , you should find that they suggest what kinds of factors you ought to be identifying in your analysis , and the range of possible solutions we think are sensible . |
| 30 | you do n't join in some enjoyable activity because of a gnawing feeling that you ought to be working |