Example sentences of "think [pers pn] ought to " in BNC.

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1 going slow , so I do n't think I ought to of done .
2 Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well
3 ‘ You 'd think she ought to be allowed to get on with it . ’
4 ‘ Do n't you think you ought to be asking some ? ’
5 ‘ I do n't think you ought to be embarrassed about me now I 'm here , ’ she said .
6 ‘ John , ’ Angela cut in with a pleading glance at Patrick , ‘ do n't you think you ought to — ’
7 Shall I come and help you cos I do n't think you ought to s
8 Well , do n't you think you ought to ?
9 ‘ They say the Robemaker uses human fuel , ’ said Caspar , half to himself , and then , ‘ Fenella , do you really think we ought to be doing this ?
10 ‘ Do you think we ought to be doing this ? ’ she said in a rather strangled voice .
11 ‘ D' you think we ought to ? ’
12 ‘ Do n't you think we ought to be toddling off ?
13 But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this .
14 So , given things being the way they are , who 's to say they 're the loonies because they do n't do things the way Joe Punter thinks they ought to be done ?
15 I told her I was scared to go home but I thought I ought to , and of course she said , ‘ You 'd be best to come here , then , and when you feel like it , we can phone your parents and tell them whatever you want them to know .
16 ‘ I thought I ought to .
17 Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists .
18 It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to .
19 Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years .
20 He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness .
21 All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be .
22 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 .
23 Alex Ferguson thought we ought to at least register it formally and that 's what we did .
24 ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’
25 ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly .
26 Eighty four patients ( 27% ) thought they ought to be looked after by both their general practitioner and the hospital , 138 ( 45% ) by their general practitioner alone , 54 ( 17% ) by the hospital alone , and 13 ( 4.2% ) by a diabetes nurse ( 19 patients did not respond to this question ) .
27 Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg .
28 Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done .
29 Marx thought it ought to .
30 Slithering north in the rain the next day , he thought he ought to be commended for speaking the truth , for what it was worth , which was little .
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