Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Th they used he used to er hunting with the with the with the with the with the with the with the people that used to go hunting . |
| 2 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 3 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 4 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 5 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 6 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 7 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 8 | He eyed her speculatively across the room , stupid bitch , then decided he ought to be careful . |
| 9 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 10 | He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out . |
| 11 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 12 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I ought to . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to . |
| 17 | I thought I used to I used to say to her sometimes I 'll have to go off story . |
| 18 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 19 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 20 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 23 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Alex Ferguson thought we ought to at least register it formally and that 's what we did . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 30 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |