Example sentences of "you ought " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe you ought to wait outside , here . ’ |
| 2 | You ought to think again . ’ |
| 3 | You ought to have a day off yourself . ’ |
| 4 | You ought to listen and learn , Harriet , ’ she says earnestly . |
| 5 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 6 | Just thought you ought to know before you sell your soul ; you ca n't get it back . |
| 7 | The ideal of beauty and normality can not perish in a healthy society ; and for this reason you ought to let art go its own way ad be confident that it will not go astray … |
| 8 | Surely if he has got it you ought to encourage it … |
| 9 | ‘ Cor , ’ she mocked in her best cockney accent , ‘ kept woman now , Phoebe Petherington , you ought to be ashamed of yourself . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You ought to , you know ; I 'll show you how afterwards . ’ |
| 11 | You can blame the media , but really you ought to blame the readers . |
| 12 | ‘ You ought to see them . |
| 13 | ‘ You ought to know . |
| 14 | You ought to respect me grief . ’ |
| 15 | You ought to be writing detective stories ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 17 | ‘ Well you ought to , ’ Frau Nordern flashed , then , realising the oddity of the remark , retracted . |
| 18 | ‘ You ought to know that . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You ought to get ready , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ And Father thought that you ought to see this . |
| 21 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ Kitty said in a carefully careless tone , ‘ There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 23 | The distribution of work between the divisions of that court is only a matter of convenience ; the Queen 's Bench Division can never say ‘ here a matter of Equity is involved ; we can not decide it ’ , or the Chancery Division ‘ this is a question of Common Law ; you ought to have gone to a Common Law Court ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe you ought to find yourself a younger jockey . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I think you ought to see a psychiatrist . |
| 26 | ‘ You ought to wash all that stuff off , you 'll damage your skin , ’ he told her , looking with distaste at her stale , badly applied make-up . |
| 27 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 28 | ‘ You ought to have known him , Marie . |
| 29 | You ought to have seen her face ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You ought to have seen him . |