Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been told by my superiors that I could use it in the same way that I would to prosecute anyone found mistreating a dog . |
| 3 | I will co-operate with and fight alongside my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley ( Mr. Barron ) for the interests of coal and do all that I can to assist my party 's energy team in that fight . |
| 4 | A private internal affair needed resolving , and I went on that review group , I was prepared to do all that I could to resolve it . |
| 5 | So absorbed , or intoxicated , was it that I used to photograph it with the other hand . |
| 6 | As Mario tells it , ‘ there was no outward sign of any big problem , except that I used to think he got tired very easily for a guy his age ’ . |
| 7 | I had mine in a cone , with wafers stuck in the top that I used to eat it with , but Cati sat down and she had hers with a spoon , out of a glass , sitting up on one of those stools … . ’ |
| 8 | I looked for the knitted garments that I used to help her with but they must have all been sold . |
| 9 | You thought British art had been ‘ needlessly neglected and undervalued and that somebody ought to do something about it ’ . |
| 10 | I kept thinking that somebody ought to say something to change the subject . |
| 11 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 12 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 13 | Isabel Lavender , now sixty-eight years old , sat before the mirror , the pretty amethyst brooch at her neck , and felt that she ought to have it , for it was owed to her , it was a little enough thing to covet . |
| 14 | In a world where physiognomy was a respected practice , Leapor 's appearance may have given the Chauncys grounds to believe that the kitchen maid really was a person of no significance and that she ought to learn her station . |
| 15 | She felt embarrassed , felt that she ought to remove her hand , but did not know how . |
| 16 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 17 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 18 | Why he felt as if they had just agreed to an illicit liaison he did not know , unless it was the air of sexual invitation this woman wore as other women wore perfume , the practised composition of glance and gesture that she used to imply everything whilst proposing nothing . |
| 19 | Well it 's certainly right that you ought to stop anything that makes you feel worse . |
| 20 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 21 | And I mean , obviously I 'm not saying that you ought to buy it anywhere else |
| 22 | erm thinking that we ought to charge something because to hire the equipment is very expensive |
| 23 | What would commonly be taken as a characteristic example of the Naturalistic Fallacy is ethical hedonism , the doctrine that we ought to do what gives most pleasure . |
| 24 | Are you saying that we ought to do you 're gon na take this |
| 25 | But it does not follow from this , as Rollin seems to suppose , that we ought to allow them to do so in the absence of clear signs of distress . |
| 26 | And I came to the conclusion that we ought to develop our own music , and let the natural children of rock — the Europeans and North Americans — do their own thing . |
| 27 | In Britain the hostility of some to British political life is more explicit , with the implicit suggestion that we ought to solve our problems by handing over our powers of self government to those clever foreigners instead . |
| 28 | Yeah , well I think that we ought to get them or somebody to put a retraction , I mean we dare n't do it ourselves , but I think in next month 's |
| 29 | The pong was such that we used to pinch our noses as we ran past . |
| 30 | There was so much that we used to cut it into strips and string it from the eaves to dry in the wind and sun . |