Example sentences of "[vb mod] to [be] ashamed " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Cor , ’ she mocked in her best cockney accent , ‘ kept woman now , Phoebe Petherington , you ought to be ashamed of yourself . ’
2 Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’
3 Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him .
4 You are frightening me ! ’ and of a passer-by who had added , to the astonished Shanti , ‘ You ought to be ashamed of yourself , frightening someone like that . ’
5 I suspect it 's an assumption Switchboard shares with the wider white-dominated gay community — a reflection that , for once , the organization ought to be ashamed of .
6 Astonished , I cried , ‘ Miss Sowerby , you ought to be ashamed of yourself , masquerading under false pretences .
7 It 's terrible what 's happening to him , it really is , the Government ought to be ashamed of itself .
8 He behaves exactly as if I ought to be ashamed .
9 You ought to be ashamed of yourselves . "
10 Grant Allen , writer and biologist , who also stressed the importance of women 's sexual emancipation in a novel , The Woman Who Did ( 1895 ) , took up a similar cry : ‘ A woman ought to be ashamed to say she has no desire to become a wife and mother ’ .
11 You ought to be ashamed of yourself showin' such a thing to me . ’
12 If this omission was not the fault of some over-zealous sub-editor , them Mr Bailey ought to be ashamed of himself .
13 You ought to be ashamed of yourself .
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