Example sentences of "to be ashamed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is that true , it is also nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 2 | ‘ Cor , ’ she mocked in her best cockney accent , ‘ kept woman now , Phoebe Petherington , you ought to be ashamed of yourself . ’ |
| 3 | They 're right to be ashamed , but of themselves , not of pop . |
| 4 | Having explained that his Communism was an aspect of his campaign for black equality he thundered at the committee : ‘ You are the non-patriots , you are the UnAmericans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said , again out loud . |
| 6 | ‘ There is no need to be ashamed , ’ he said to himself , getting up off the bed and making his way to the door to see what his native Forest looked like in daylight and to see what sort of world it was where a man could be free and alone and full of shame . |
| 7 | My mother taught me that the female body is something to be ashamed of . |
| 8 | In the first half , I began to be ashamed for ballet . |
| 9 | I could , to be sure , scribble off things the whole day long , but a composition of this kind goes out into the world , and naturally I do not want to have cause to be ashamed of my name on the title-page . |
| 10 | Then he said the father ought to be ashamed of himself , using children who should be in school to make money , and that one day the police would find him . |
| 11 | You are frightening me ! ’ and of a passer-by who had added , to the astonished Shanti , ‘ You ought to be ashamed of yourself , frightening someone like that . ’ |
| 12 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 13 | Even if there is no close partnership in our lives during youth or middle age , there is no reason to suppose this will always be the case ; nor is there any need to be ashamed of wanting a close and interdependent relationship . |
| 14 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 15 | There 's no family to be ashamed of me . |
| 16 | I do n't want you to be ashamed of me . |
| 17 | There are three basic misconceptions which are especially common : first , that doubt is wrong because it is the same thing as unbelief ; second , that doubt is a problem which troubles faith but not knowledge ; and third , that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 18 | In this chapter we will examine a third misconception about doubt — the idea that doubt is something to be ashamed of because it is dishonest to believe if you have doubts . |
| 19 | There is nothing to be ashamed of in having your tank go wrong from time to time — it happens to me too you know ! |
| 20 | At my boarding school , I learned to be ashamed of him . |
| 21 | But Gould said : ‘ I had absolutely nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 22 | But Gould said : ‘ I had absolutely nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 23 | ‘ You will not have to be ashamed of your mother , Paul , ’ Sophia Arkwright said softly . |
| 24 | Where this is so , people feel unable to express their pain and grief , their anger or fear ; they will learn to be ashamed of the various ‘ taboo ’ feelings they have . |
| 25 | I persuaded him to be ashamed of snobbishness — or perhaps I only taught him to keep his true feelings from me . |
| 26 | As if she had read her thoughts , Miss Hatherby said , ‘ There is nothing to be ashamed of . |
| 27 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 28 | I suspect it 's an assumption Switchboard shares with the wider white-dominated gay community — a reflection that , for once , the organization ought to be ashamed of . |
| 29 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 30 | Astonished , I cried , ‘ Miss Sowerby , you ought to be ashamed of yourself , masquerading under false pretences . |