Example sentences of "feel i [modal v] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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1 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
2 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
5 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |