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 . |