Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose one went to Boston and found one ought to be in Chicago ? |
| 2 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 3 | … And it seemed there ought to be music , so Esther Allan , the music teacher at the school where I was the most reluctant member of the Art Department , got roped in . |
| 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 | When I came it used to be a very old building which belonged to British Legion club previously and er Sikhs bought from them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 9 | He eyed her speculatively across the room , stupid bitch , then decided he ought to be careful . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 12 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 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 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 15 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 16 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 17 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 18 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 19 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 20 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
| 21 | The memorial appeared 50 years later through the hard work of a local newspaper reporter who thought something ought to be done . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 24 | Bob Groves insisted there ought to be a public inquiry into the proposal , and called on Chelmsford Tory MP Simon Burns to take up the residents ' cause : they were less than happy with the MP 's response to date . |
| 25 | I thought there used to be a set of traffic lights in the middle and it 's gone . |
| 26 | Eighty four patients ( 27% ) thought they ought to be looked after by both their general practitioner and the hospital , 138 ( 45% ) by their general practitioner alone , 54 ( 17% ) by the hospital alone , and 13 ( 4.2% ) by a diabetes nurse ( 19 patients did not respond to this question ) . |
| 27 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 28 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 29 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 30 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |