Example sentences of "she [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got a bloody calculator , ’ Phoebe would yell , ‘ she ought to be teaching you to think . ’ |
| 3 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 4 | They 'd say she ought to be put away . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what it is , she ought to be back in school , a big girl like that . |
| 6 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 7 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 8 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 9 | She ought to be called Lucky , Lucky Something , a double-barrelled name like a smart horse , not just ordinary Lucky like an old mongrel . |
| 10 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 11 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 12 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 13 | ‘ Yeah — Mum , I told you , did n't I — ’ Cal suddenly got excited — ‘ it 's because Bina 's not allowing herself to be what she ought to be ! |
| 14 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 15 | ( Elizabeth said that she was not quite sure whether she ought to be pleased when I told her this ; but I am sure she was pleased . ) |
| 16 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 17 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 18 | She ought to be wary but despite this she felt pleased . |
| 19 | Besides , she ought to be able to manage a lunch . |
| 20 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 21 | She knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but she was altogether too excited to let the matter rest . |
| 22 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 23 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 24 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 25 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 26 | She ought to be here . ’ |
| 27 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 28 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 29 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 30 | 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 . |