Example sentences of "[verb] i ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 2 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 3 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 4 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose I ought to be making tracks as well , ’ said the classics don . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 9 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 10 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 11 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 12 | It was so funny — as I walked along , rather disconsolate in the rain , at midday , I suddenly recollected it was Mayday , & knowing I ought to be bright & rejoicing I forthwith was so , at least for a time . |
| 13 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 14 | Look , thanks for rescuing me , but if you do n't mind I think I ought to be going . |
| 15 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
| 16 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 17 | What did you say I ought to be ? ’ |