Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 2 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 3 | Whatever arrangements are made they ought to be convenient for the parents and not just for the school . |
| 4 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 5 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 6 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd think she ought to be allowed to get on with it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't you think you ought to be asking some ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't think you ought to be embarrassed about me now I 'm here , ’ she said . |
| 10 | I kno know what you 're doing , I can see you ought to be careful cos you 'll fall down wo n't you ? |
| 11 | But whether a monetarist or exchange rate policy is preferred it ought to be clear that the country can no longer endure an ambiguous mix of the two . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I think now that it exists it ought to be giving money to these things , but I think it ought to be taking the advice of the panels of artists and museum people . |
| 14 | ‘ They say the Robemaker uses human fuel , ’ said Caspar , half to himself , and then , ‘ Fenella , do you really think we ought to be doing this ? |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think we ought to be doing this ? ’ she said in a rather strangled voice . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to be toddling off ? |
| 17 | But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this . |
| 18 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 19 | Erm I think I mean we ought to be doing more with the local Friends of the Earth and local Greenpeace I feel . |
| 20 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 21 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 22 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 23 | Essentially what you 're saying is that a teacher who 's actually teaching you ought to be able to say to that teacher ‘ look , here 's a package , if you like , that you can insert into your range of skills , and these are of things that you can do with children which are worthwhile doing and fairly easily for you to acquire skills yourself , and they will be very good and helpful for the children ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose I ought to be making tracks as well , ’ said the classics don . |
| 26 | I guess I ought to be more honest about this because my daughter wrote me after her mother 's funeral and said she 'd guessed what had happened anyway . |
| 27 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 28 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 29 | We were just saying you ought to be good at that . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |