Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia put the desolation that suddenly thrust itself into her mind down to her cold and said that she thought she ought to go bed . |
| 2 | I bet she is n't , I bet when she ought to like Father Christmas and they sort of |
| 3 | I 've told Nenna time and again that she ought to get hold of some sort of reliable chap , an ex-Naval chippie would be the right sort , just to spend the odd day on board and put everything to rights . |
| 4 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 5 | She ought to be playing ten chukkas a day with really good players , and she ought to get miles away from you so she ca n't kick the shit out of you . ’ |
| 6 | She ought to phone Arnie to let him know she was back , but he was the last person she felt like speaking to right now . |
| 7 | When Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan , the fulsome insincerity of her verse is by now unmistakable to us : Yet , while feigning gratitude she is also expressing exactly the reasons why she ought to feel gratitude : The unusual and affected word ‘ hermits ’ points up her insincerity , while the content of the speech establishes the good they have received from Duncan . |
| 8 | She was vaguely aware that she ought to offer congratulations , but for some reason she did n't feel in a congratulatory frame of mind . |
| 9 | She felt she ought to write Sarah a very simple and sincere and official letter of thanks for not being married . |
| 10 | ‘ She ought to have time for preparation before the police burst in on her . ’ |
| 11 | She ought to make elderberry wine , then she would n't spend so much on vodka . |
| 12 | This on top of everything else , she seemed to be thinking , although she did what she might to eliminate exhaustion and scorn from her voice . |
| 13 | She returned Travis 's kiss warmly , then bent as well as she could to hug Jonas . |
| 14 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 15 | Rehearsals on the Sheffield play did n't actually begin till two days later , but she 'd promised to be there as soon as she could to discuss make-up with the director . |
| 16 | Renewed tears flowing , dirty hands in dirty pockets , she ran from that terrible , disloyal little hen — ran as fast as she could to find Anderson , with his promise of comfort and sound advice . |
| 17 | Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism . |
| 18 | At least she did n't think so ; she used to scold Constanza for saying they were rich , when of course they were for Italy . |
| 19 | Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side : the great-aunt running a coal shop where ‘ you had to go in there with your pail , and they weighed the coal ’ , with vegetables as a sideline , while ‘ my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples . ’ |
| 20 | Well there were a woman that used to have have that and they called her Maggie and she used to serve drinks there , whisky and that was before Stromness was voted dry you see . |
| 21 | Well she she used to drink tea when she if I ever well I did n't invite her in for a coffee do , well I did n't to begin with did I ? |
| 22 | B H did , she used to say school run Tuesday evening , do n't make any fun , she used to block it out , the time that she wanted me to see me . |
| 23 | " Girl I knew — Holy Roman she was , Irish — she used to say God thought it up as a joke , and when he found people taking it serious instead of laughing , he was so put out he made it a sin . |
| 24 | But only last year she used to spend hours weeping on the floor of her flat because she thought her career was n't getting anywhere . |
| 25 | She used to return year after year in the hope that one day Daniel would keep his appointment . |
| 26 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 27 | And she used to do Helen and Susan 's , she used to sew all the edges up and everything . |
| 28 | She used to take life for granted . |
| 29 | Yeah I used to go to playgroup when er she used to take Adam and our , I used to take our Lee up . |
| 30 | She used to go kiln-pricking in the maltings at Manningtree , Essex . |