Example sentences of "[that] she [modal v] to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Does n't she know , I go on , that she used to be a role model ?
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