Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything but to raise her eyes and see him there where she ought to be . |
| 2 | These panels are likely to suffer from what has been called ‘ duty ’ listening or viewing in which a person feels he or she ought to , say , watch a television programme because there is a questionnaire for it , even though it is not a programme that person would ordinarily view at all . |
| 3 | Admission for assessment for twenty-eight days ( section 2 ) is possible where a person is suffering from mental disorder and it is considered that he or she ought to be detained in the interests of his or her own health or safety or with a view to the protection of other persons . |
| 4 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 5 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 6 | She knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but she was altogether too excited to let the matter rest . |
| 7 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 8 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 9 | At 5 p.m. a staff nurse joined Miss T. and her mother and Miss T. told the staff nurse that she did not want a blood transfusion , that she used to be a Jehovah 's Witness and that she still maintained some beliefs . |
| 10 | Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ? |
| 11 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 12 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 13 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 14 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 15 | A decent blouse and skirt , or an attractive frock , either outfit worn with a clean straw boater , and she ought to be able to get a job in a store . |
| 16 | Everyone has a right to expect her to be predictable ( however trying things are ) and she ought to be worried and apologetic if she behaves strangely . |
| 17 | Since she 's gone there 's been a gap … it made my life better , because — she had a garden I could use … and it was like a job — I felt I was led to do that job … and she used to be so pleased to see me , she used to almost embrace me with tears in her eyes . |
| 18 | And she used to live er in , in the lace market . |
| 19 | And she used to be so pretty … ’ |
| 20 | And she used to run from here to Hamburg and London . |
| 21 | And she used to I mean her making the jackets and that for us . |
| 22 | Yeah and she used to be hammering on the door , twenty past five you know yeah |
| 23 | and erm and she used to lived in , she does n't wan na come via it . |
| 24 | You know , once when I was in Wembley like , another thing that I 've noticed that changed in our place at Wembley , like every time I used to go in there , all , well , when I used to be in there , like , all the lads would be in the office with her like talking to her , and laughing and smiling and and she used to be at the desk smiling and everything and now , when I walk in there now it 's only me like on a Saturday , and it 's only her like nobody else is in there with her , she 's al , she always she 's got , I think what 's happened is she got too deep into her work that she 's she just seems to take all her work now and that . |
| 25 | She was always clean , you could n't fault her for cleanliness , but I 'm sure she must of either washed her clothes in the toilets , you know , wash basin in the toilets because that was the only thing she had was one bag and she used to , er , her pension book was in and er erm |
| 26 | Cos she ought to be down there this morning did n't she ? |
| 27 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 28 | I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh no , it 's not like that , but she 's parky , she still does n't eat like she used to . |
| 30 | And Paula , if she will to second the resolution . |