Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er anyway later on I used to er go out into the fields with the men . |
| 2 | Perhaps I ought to formally reopen the inquest ; compel the police to reveal publicly how little they have achieved . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So I ought to be able to work out the difference between them . |
| 5 | Well he , he , they were on their way to Norwich but they stopped off at Ipswich for a lunch , you see , and er I had , I looked after them , so , so that it should n't interrupt the other girls behind the counter or , or the waiter who was looking after his regular customers in the dining room , you see , er and so I used to erm and once I had I remember there was six black doctors came in and er and I was glad because it was nice to move about and instead of sticking in the office typing and then going out all alone , you see , while the Manager was on the district , you see , I liked it and er anyway that was a long time ago . |
| 6 | and er , so I used to , I started again and then I did n't smoke until I come out of ho , when I come out , I did n't smoke |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to , ’ she said . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 11 | Yeah , perhaps you ought to . |
| 12 | Perhaps we ought to be a little more circumspect . |
| 13 | Do you think perhaps we ought to erm ask the school if they 've got the letters ready yet , rather than |
| 14 | Perhaps we ought to lo well , what is weaning ? |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | and er actually that is something perhaps we ought to be talking about . |
| 17 | Perhaps we ought to be spending time developing camouflage , rather than advertising our presence . |
| 18 | So everything used to be weighed |
| 19 | So we ought to be cheering as the big round numbers go by , leaving us healthy and whole . |
| 20 | Oh well I b , it were , we all had to be in the union anyway and so we used to er we used to go to the meetings a a a you know as youngsters and then when we came back from the Army we 'd got to the union meeting as well . |
| 21 | I know it 's , I knew it was Needham Station and it was between station to station , you see , not er anything to do with the public but that 's where I learnt so we used to er take er messages from station to station and I used to speak to the girl at Merrith down the line . |
| 22 | And sometimes used to get a bit of a a bad storm ahead so we used to especially if you went from here to er North of Scotland round Cape . |
| 23 | Perhaps there ought to be an intelligence extradition agreement that all defectors are immediately put on the first aircraft back home . |
| 24 | Perhaps there ought to be a law like that , but there is n't at the moment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Perhaps there used to be er erm a lot of hot cross er buns hanging down . |
| 27 | Perhaps there used to be and I lost it . |
| 28 | Yeah , that girl was saying , apparently there used to be glass in front of that there there used to be a glass cabinet attached to the wall there . |
| 29 | Perhaps they ought to be in the British Library . |
| 30 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |