Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 3 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 4 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 5 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 6 | Cos she ought to be down there this morning did n't she ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh no , it 's not like that , but she 's parky , she still does n't eat like she used to . |
| 10 | And Paula , if she will to second the resolution . |
| 11 | It 's so sad because she used to be such a lively and outgoing person . |
| 12 | She called her a tart and a slut because she used to be married to a black man from South Carolina who sang basso at charity concerts all over Yorkshire and Lancashire and dropped dead at the Sun Hotel in Eccleshill in 1927 . |
| 13 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 14 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 15 | ( Elizabeth said that she was not quite sure whether she ought to be pleased when I told her this ; but I am sure she was pleased . ) |
| 16 | Erm the other parts that I made a note of , you did n't ac well you Steve said the wife will be back in an hour and a half erm you did n't pick up Bill any , anything on that at that stage as to whether she ought to be involved although when he started talking or when he could n't remember the , the names of the or dates of birth of the children , he remembered the names , the dates of birth of the children , you mentioned the fact then that the wife would be back in a in an hour |
| 17 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 18 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 19 | So indeed should the woman for she is to submit to her husband as she would to the Lord himself . |
| 20 | She was not quite as neat as she used to be . |
| 21 | She 's not as cool as she used to be , you know . |
| 22 | PRINCESS Diana came as close as she could to commenting on her marriage break-up yesterday when she made a public vow to continue working for her charities . |
| 23 | She , meanwhile , devoted herself to selling as many of her husband 's works as she could to various publishers , including J. A. André of Offenbach am Main , and Breitkopf & Härtel of Leipzig . |
| 24 | ‘ We looked round , and there was Anna , crawling as fast as she could to me . |
| 25 | Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet . |
| 26 | There was no clear path , she was just winding through trees and keeping as close as she could to the direction he had shown . |
| 27 | For a while , Jem manages to restrict Scout who does n't realise how serious everything is and wants to run to Atticus , but eventually she breaks free and runs as fast as she can to him . |