Example sentences of "that he [vb mod] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raven pushed at the bishop that he ought to be in an academic post and soon . |
| 2 | Ramsey entered this conference with a reputation outside England as well as inside it ; and the proceedings of the conference confirmed the opinion of a lot of bishops that he ought to be their next leader . |
| 3 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 4 | North once offered Calero a bullet-proof vest — ‘ the same sort the President wears ’ — Only to find Calero shocked at the implication that he ought to be looking danger in the face . |
| 5 | Paul remembered the Colonel , an old martinet who was one of those who had made it evident that he ought to be at home helping his mother . |
| 6 | This document , which was rich in wounding phrases , was by no means unwelcome to Chamberlain , particularly as it ended with a fairly clear hint that he ought to be the new leader . |
| 7 | Consequently , Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently . |
| 8 | Mr Crump read Hope 's card several times and knew that he ought to be impressed . |
| 9 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 10 | Moreover , it has been argued that he ought to be responsible for guests or licensees on his land . |
| 11 | I , far from it but I think here we should be encouraging him or , or highlighting the , the problem that he 's got that he ought to be looking at . |
| 12 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 13 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 14 | ‘ I kept saying that he ought to be in Shakespeare and not waste his time . ’ |
| 15 | Put out of your mind any notion that he ought to be convicted in case he did it . ’ |
| 16 | He does n't believe his wife 's 92-year-old grandmother , Wendy ( Maggie Smith ) , when she assures him that he used to be Peter Pan . |
| 17 | Another thing we had a barney with Peter about at one point , was the fact that he used to be too drunk on stage , ’ says Charman . |
| 18 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |