Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself thinking affectionately that I ought to be straightforward with him ; the English liked that . |
| 2 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 3 | Well perhaps this is a good time just to take stock and to say I know that I 'm not all that I should be and all that I ought to be , but by this time next year I 'm going to be a bit better than I am just now , in spiritual terms . |
| 4 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 5 | Declaring that she was so beautiful that she ought to be in pictures , he gave her some of his manuscripts . |
| 6 | She knew that she ought to be paying some attention to the rest of the class but she was altogether too excited to let the matter rest . |
| 7 | She agreed to one glass of the port , not because she was feeling at all drunk but because she knew that she ought to be . |
| 8 | It was all a plot to distort what she said , a plot between her husband and brother to take her daughter away from her , and her daughter had never got into any trouble while she was with her , and that she ought to be with other girls of her own age and with her own mother . |
| 9 | You do n't fully savour happy/frivolous moments because of a gnawing feeling that you ought to be doing something more worthwhile . |
| 10 | you do n't join in some enjoyable activity because of a gnawing feeling that you ought to be working |
| 11 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 12 | I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful . |
| 13 | the point about membership is that you ought to be able to comment on those suggestions of change and get involved with them on a broad basis . |
| 14 | The erm but most of us are when yo , when you first join something you can always see the things that you ought to be able to change . |
| 15 | So when we look at the grimacing gestures of a chimpanzee and wonder at the almost ludicrous parallels with our own behaviour this is just part of a whole host of behavioural and anatomical similarities that show without doubt that we ought to be classified with the apes ( we are all of us primates ) , and that we share a distant ancestor with our diminutive caricatures . |
| 16 | He 's saying that we ought to be moving a bit up market an-l selling wines , spirits and cocktails to the 18–25 age group . |
| 17 | Most educated people in this country now believe , in a vague sort of way , that we ought to be less sexually prudish than the Victorians are alleged to have been , and that sexual morality should be guarded rather by example and exhortation than by penal sanctions . |
| 18 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |
| 19 | But I do believe that we ought to be doing more in terms of making sure they do come out erm you know i , we know it 's only a a training exercise even though you leave one or two in there , but I think we ought |
| 20 | With these concepts in mind , Professor James ' WHO group came to the view that we ought to be concentrating on the positive aspects of the benefits of fruit and vegetables . |
| 21 | Just on that last point , it was suggested that we ought to be writing now , to these commissioners , saying that we as a parish council wanted to make comments to them when they were er in Nottinghamshire . |
| 22 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 23 | Okay , but why do we get the , the main thrust of erm , to the economic argument seems to be that we ought to be liberalizing , we ought to be facing that erm , that problem . |
| 24 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 25 | He is er , strongly er , suggesting that we ought to be rather more pro-active than we either are , or than anybody is suggesting that we ought to be in the paper at number seventeen . |
| 26 | Be we 've got a lot that we ought to be proud of . |
| 27 | Erm , I 'm quite sure that we ought to be able to spend this money , and I think it 's it 's very sensible and it would help a great deal with the problems that we have . |
| 28 | ‘ All I know is that we ought to be up in that tower , plannin' how we get back to our own lines , and not wastin' any more time quarrellin' down ‘ ere . ’ |
| 29 | I have rather perhaps eccentric views about this , I do n't feel that we ought to be advertising our presence to external civilizations . |
| 30 | This , I believe , is against the law , but it is a law that deserves to be broken , for it is the puritanical nonsense of excluding children — and therefore to some extent , women — from pubs that has turned these places into mere boozing-shops instead of the family gathering-places that they ought to be . ’ |