Example sentences of "she [modal v] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She ought to have worn high heels . |
| 2 | She ought to have guessed . |
| 3 | She felt she ought to have bought a card . |
| 4 | In fact , he believed she ought to have done without them for vanity 's sake , as he did . |
| 5 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 8 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 11 | ‘ She ought to have bought an ordinary ticket and donated the rest to the pension fund . |
| 12 | She ought to have recognized Harry , that woollen hat , the jacket . |
| 13 | ‘ She ought to have time for preparation before the police burst in on her . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( Simon was drinking quite heavily then , even Mr James said she ought to have had allowed for that . ) |
| 19 | The child is delicate , she ought to have a change of air . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 21 | ‘ She ought to have seen he only wanted her money , and refused him , ’ said Retty . |
| 22 | The tale was distressing to Ayling and she knew she ought to have curtailed it but she could not resist going on . |
| 23 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 24 | If her husband had let her down , as was apparently the case , she ought to have a male relation of some kind , to see to things . |
| 25 | She ought to have got out then , but she , the stubborn one , persisted . |
| 26 | She ought to have known . |
| 27 | What a damn shame , he thought , what a tragedy that she was a woman instead of what she ought to have been . |
| 28 | She ought to have known there would be trouble . |
| 29 | But of course she ought to have known that martin Jones would find out in the end . |
| 30 | Hell , she ought to have been downstairs by now . |