Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First it is argued that where a state is relatively just one ought to support and maintain it . |
| 2 | The function of government intervention is less to tell people what they ought to like than to allow them better to achieve what they already like . |
| 3 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 4 | ‘ So it might , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to go and hunt it . |
| 5 | He supposed he ought to go and sign on ; let the unemployment people know he was out of a job again . |
| 6 | I think we ought to go and talk to them first and exp you know , put our side forward and if they do n't want to play then , then you have a solicitor . |
| 7 | ‘ We ought to go and see — and make sure , Shirley ! ’ |
| 8 | Any chick who fancies herself as a feminist ought to go and see Martha McGilchrist . |
| 9 | ‘ But in that case somebody ought to go and see him , ’ said Ianthe , remembering her own recent illness and how forlorn she had felt . |
| 10 | You ought to go and see a doctor . ’ |
| 11 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 12 | You see the the inlet pipes and the outlets and this you ca n't see a thing of this , you ought to go and have a look at this place sometime . |
| 13 | ‘ I still think you ought to go and have it out with him . ’ |
| 14 | I reckon we ought to go and investigate . ’ |
| 15 | I really ought to go and help them seeing as we 're . |
| 16 | ‘ You ought to go and look . ’ |
| 17 | I ought to go and catch last time it was horrible ! |
| 18 | Yeah , I ought to go and get changed |
| 19 | I think I ought to go and put them in the dryer a bit longer . |
| 20 | And anyway , I ought to go and find my parents . |
| 21 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 22 | The right hon. Gentleman was , of course , absolutely right ; but he went on to say : ’ We ought to wait and see if this convergence happens ’ . |
| 23 | The Economist has argued that the council is indeed a senate and ought to debate and vote as openly as a senate . |
| 24 | ‘ You ought to come and visit me one day . |
| 25 | ‘ … you ought to come and live here , ’ Bob went on , ignoring his friend 's interruption , ‘ and leave your brother and his good , dull wife to their sober lives . ’ |
| 26 | We 've got two sessions planned erm and I would like to Rob that you and I ought to meet and talk about how we 're going to handle that session in some detail and the videos . |
| 27 | But when the dickie birds sing in the trees I think we ought to try and sing like these . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to try and eat something , ’ he said ; ‘ to give the stomach acid something to work on . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , I take the view that we ought to try and make the existing arrangements work and we are fast approaching a very key point er in that process erm I understand that on Thursday , er securities and investments board , the board will consider the er P I A , proposed P I A prospectus and that er within a week or so we shall all be able to read it and to look at it erm and the key point , which really is arises out of what we 're discussing tonight , the key point is what regulatory framework should the P I A place on intermediaries and on er life assurance companies , pension funds , financial advisors generally er in order to ensure that the public interest is protected and that if there are potential frauds erm such as the Levitt case er that we talked about earlier and I think the honourable member in sort of by implication in terms of er community service , er punishments that he referred to , er had also that in mind , er just what should we do to ensure that if there is malpractice and fraud , it 's picked up very , very quickly . |
| 30 | And Alan Shearer , who has shown his versatility as a striker by scoring several of his 16 goals for Blackburn from distance , ought to try and do the same for England . |