Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well come on I mean we ought to be able to be a little bit more creative than that . |
| 2 | Erm I think I mean we ought to be doing more with the local Friends of the Earth and local Greenpeace I feel . |
| 3 | I know I ought to be different , but there it is . |
| 4 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 5 | He says that 's what you want but I said yeah but there ai n't no bloody fit I reckon it ought to be them on legs maybe . |
| 6 | I reckon it ought to be compulsory that . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we ought to be grateful to Eleanor , ’ she said wryly . |
| 9 | ‘ But I suppose we ought to be sensible and try to get some sleep , ’ she added reluctantly . |
| 10 | ‘ Thanks , although I suppose I ought to be thankful it was n't a kiwi you likened me to . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I ought to be making tracks as well , ’ said the classics don . |
| 12 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
| 13 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 14 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And that is why , as Mr said , I think they ought to be allowed to produce some sort of advertising pamphlet , and get their act together , because if they 're going to go and compete out there they 've got to be prepared for it , and we 've got to allow them to give a decent presentation , at least have a decent glossy brochure to push round , so at least they can say what they do , because they will never compete when they are privatised unless they get it . |
| 21 | I think they ought to be in the wild . |
| 22 | Looking at Durham Cathedral , the Cardinal pointed out that the Church is not just concerned with beautiful buildings but also the dignity of the individual — ‘ I think we ought to be inspired by those saints of Anglo-Saxon England , to do in our day what they did in theirs . |
| 23 | Er , Switzerland is one country that has banned the use of animals for research , and I think we ought to be going along these lines that , if animals have rights we ought not to be using them for experimentation . |
| 24 | But anyhow have you if you have a look here there 's erm er the er er I think we ought to be thinking about er |
| 25 | So I think we ought to be considering the entire sum of money but we ought also to be looking for ways in which we could be maximising the total impact . |
| 26 | I think we ought to be looking at ways of encouraging innovative developments in the range of services for those people who fall between long-stay in patient medical care and unsupported family care . |
| 27 | The private sector probably has even more flexibility to find imaginative ways of addressing those issues than the statutory services ; I think we ought to be prepared to give backing . |
| 28 | ‘ I think we ought to be getting down now , ’ he said hollowly . |
| 29 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |
| 30 | If they ca n't get sufficient profit out of supplying gas in the U K I think British Gas is on the verge of withdrawing from the gas market in the U K , and that a lot of jobs in this country and I think we ought to be aware of that and I think we ought to be campaigning to make sure that does n't happen . |