Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 2 | ‘ He ought to go to Sanderstown right away and have an operation for arthrodesis by a proper orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I think we ought to go to Santa Barbara . |
| 4 | You ought to go to Yelton yourself and see the privation there , but I do n't suppose you could walk as far as your gate , never mind finding a horse strong enough to carry you . |
| 5 | Which is also why I feel that he ought to go to Ironcrest as well . |
| 6 | Yeah , cheerio i n't Christine ought to go to bed ? |
| 7 | This thing you 've got , it ought to go to Devon . |
| 8 | They probably ought to go to Paul Ralph . |
| 9 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 10 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 11 | Ought to come to bed and turn it off . |
| 12 | Arguing that Glasgow wages were already higher than those in Edinburgh , and pointing out that the Glasgow printers had successfully blacked firms trying to employ women , he went on ( in rather clotted prose ) : I am satisfied that the employment of female compositors in Glasgow , while it would increase the total volume of work done there and admit of the natural development of the Glasgow book trade , would not injure the position of the Glasgow men printers , while it would enable the Glasgow printing trade , employed as well as employers , to obtain and retain work which at present ought to come to Glasgow , or at least might come to Glasgow but now goes to Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Nenna was struck by the fact that she ought to write to Louise , who was married to a successful business man . |
| 14 | This belief provides a rationalisation of how man ought to relate to technology and the enterprises which employ them . |
| 15 | It says individuals ought to conform to groups , because what is good for the group is good for the species and what is good for the family is good for the group is good for the species and everything like that . |
| 16 | Well he ought to talk to Nicola about that . |
| 17 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 18 | Objects ought to lead to investigations about the society that produced them and the people who used them . |
| 19 | He even wondered if he ought to suggest to Paul Lexington that that sentence was put on a hoarding outside the theatre , but did n't quite have the nerve . |
| 20 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 21 | Friends rang round to remind each other of the vigil and colleagues rallied as many people as they could to come to St Bride 's . |
| 22 | The question of sailing the ship against winds or currents I submit the Khan ought to leave to sailors . |
| 23 | ‘ I used to like to striptease in public . |
| 24 | I , I mean I used to go to London to buy things erm and you have oh they are even in England . |
| 25 | Er and I used to go to night school to learn , er National Council of Labour Colleges , to learn economics . |
| 26 | That 's right , we used to go to Road Methodist and erm we got up to all sorts of capers there you know . |
| 27 | Did you used to go to church |
| 28 | Oh yes I used to g I used to go to church regularly every Sunday . |
| 29 | When I was in Holloway I used to go to education but that was just to get out of my cell . |
| 30 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |