Example sentences of "[vb past] she [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 2 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 5 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 6 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rhoda was forty-eight , blonde , buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid . |
| 9 | She supposed she ought to be thankful that she and Holly had spent several contented years together before things had become prickly . |
| 10 | She supposed she ought to be pleased at this fresh evidence of Luke 's sensitivity . |