Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she was so funny that it seemed she ought to be given a show of her own . |
| 2 | Life had to be what she believed it ought to be ; she had no sense of reality . |
| 3 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 4 | or 170 MN/m 2 which is round about the average for laboratory glassware , window panes , beer bottles and most of the other common forms of glass but was something between a fiftieth and a hundredth of what he reckoned it ought to be . |
| 5 | I figured I ought to be the person to make her grow , but I just did n't know how . |
| 6 | He eyed her speculatively across the room , stupid bitch , then decided he ought to be careful . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 9 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 12 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 13 | By rights , she knew she ought to be feeling extra anticipation now . |
| 14 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 15 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 16 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 17 | She thought she ought to be able to master it sufficiently to make it write a poem for her , but it did n't work like that . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 20 | Eighty four patients ( 27% ) thought they ought to be looked after by both their general practitioner and the hospital , 138 ( 45% ) by their general practitioner alone , 54 ( 17% ) by the hospital alone , and 13 ( 4.2% ) by a diabetes nurse ( 19 patients did not respond to this question ) . |
| 21 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 22 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 23 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 24 | He knew he ought to be afraid of her , yet he found himself returning her smile with an easy grin and enjoying his jam sandwich to the very last crumb . |
| 25 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 26 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 27 | Slithering north in the rain the next day , he thought he ought to be commended for speaking the truth , for what it was worth , which was little . |
| 28 | Rhoda was forty-eight , blonde , buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid . |
| 29 | So he said alright so he come in and had his dinner so he said I said we ought to be going this week for a ride out instead of last week . |
| 30 | Head : ‘ Had we ought to be looking for courses to send you on ? ’ |