Example sentences of "think [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | going slow , so I do n't think I ought to of done . |
| 2 | Yet I do n't think I used to be very naughty . |
| 3 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd think she ought to be allowed to get on with it . ’ |
| 5 | No , I do n't think she will to be honest with you . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't you think you ought to be asking some ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think you ought to be embarrassed about me now I 'm here , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ John , ’ Angela cut in with a pleading glance at Patrick , ‘ do n't you think you ought to — ’ |
| 9 | Shall I come and help you cos I do n't think you ought to s |
| 10 | Well , do n't you think you ought to ? |
| 11 | ‘ They say the Robemaker uses human fuel , ’ said Caspar , half to himself , and then , ‘ Fenella , do you really think we ought to be doing this ? |
| 12 | ‘ Do you think we ought to be doing this ? ’ she said in a rather strangled voice . |
| 13 | ‘ D' you think we ought to ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to be toddling off ? |
| 15 | But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this . |
| 16 | Do , do you think they used to in the fifties ? |
| 17 | So , given things being the way they are , who 's to say they 're the loonies because they do n't do things the way Joe Punter thinks they ought to be done ? |
| 18 | I told her I was scared to go home but I thought I ought to , and of course she said , ‘ You 'd be best to come here , then , and when you feel like it , we can phone your parents and tell them whatever you want them to know . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I ought to . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was n't vital to come but I thought I ought to . |
| 22 | I thought I used to I used to say to her sometimes I 'll have to go off story . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 25 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Alex Ferguson thought we ought to at least register it formally and that 's what we did . |
| 28 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |