Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] ought [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I ought to formally reopen the inquest ; compel the police to reveal publicly how little they have achieved . ’ |
| 2 | Erm Mick said afterwards , perhaps I ought to er try a verbal lambasting of them before every game , if that 's the sort of response I get , two from , one from , the two Garys on the score sheet . |
| 3 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 4 | Perhaps she ought to be grateful that , out of Luke Hunter 's whole harem , she was at least one of the only two to be awarded an ‘ A ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to , ’ she said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 8 | Yeah , perhaps you ought to . |
| 9 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 10 | Do you think perhaps we ought to erm ask the school if they 've got the letters ready yet , rather than |
| 11 | Perhaps we ought to lo well , what is weaning ? |
| 12 | If the latter are regarded as territory to be defended , as rallying cries for confrontation with others , perhaps we ought to be asking whether they need to be so territorial ? |
| 13 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 14 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 15 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 16 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 17 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 18 | Erm perhaps also say how urgent a lot of people but perhaps there ought to be sort of changes in planning law er changes indeed which erm this Council has sent messages to government about erm er previously . |
| 19 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 20 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 21 | She tried , saying : ‘ On the other hand , perhaps he ought to be told . |
| 22 | I think perhaps he ought to . |
| 23 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 24 | " If you do n't want me any longer I ought to be on my way to the hospital . |
| 25 | Nevertheless there ought to be some control somewhere and we 're getting back to what I think Richard said was the original idea of some kind of development control that is a popular thing in order to be allowed , people ought to make money for the various charities and so on , we ought to try and prevent er certain unjust practices going on and so on . |
| 26 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 27 | Thesiger LJ said that arbitrators incurred " enormous " expense in calling witnesses , " which was entirely thrown away , for as soon as the arbitrators saw the property they knew at once what ought to be done " . |
| 28 | So quite honestly you ought to be able to make a a bit of something out of it there 's |
| 29 | also we ought to be treating it , are you not actually having any active treatment at the moment are you ? |
| 30 | I think also we ought to be guarded about too much detailed discussion of travel distances , we are talking here at most of travel distances of between six and ten miles , in keeping with the policy , erm it seems to me that erm if we we spend too much time on trying to determine whether six or ten miles distant , is is there any great significance in terms of the global environment it would be at least an unproved case , one way or the other , but also there seems to me to be a clear conflict in those who are trying to say that the new settlement proposal falls because not large enough of a site is being proposed , one way and another . |