Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkie said it was Alexander she ought to talk to about Van Gogh and Hodgkiss said Alexander was an excellent example of what he was talking about , the effect of this light , the difficulty of fixing colours . |
| 2 | He had drawn up a long list of people she ought to talk to during the day : fashion houses , designers , a couple of artists ' studios , a gallery specializing in contemporary prints . |
| 3 | She ought to demand to be taken back to London . |
| 4 | He , sh she ought to learn to sh she 's , they was all on about how Shrimpy ca n't stick up for himself , and then flaming Emma does exactly the same but worse cos she gets Scott to do it for her . |
| 5 | Nenna was struck by the fact that she ought to write to Louise , who was married to a successful business man . |
| 6 | She never for a moment thought of deserting French for Mrs Hill , having encountered amongst other things some nasty problems about the nature of electricity , but she did enjoy the sensation of flirtation : she spent a long time making her mind up , and finally was summoned by the headmistress , who told her she ought to stick to Sciences , because they offered better prospects . |
| 7 | And it is our judgment that you can and should pay at once a portion of Mistress Hussey 's dowry , so that her maintenance may be assured , and she may return to her father 's house from this court , as is her wish . |
| 8 | Charlotte has her old master , too , and she keeps fairly regularly to Bordeaux for wine , though at different times of the year she may go to Spain for oranges , or to the Canaries for new potatoes or bananas . |
| 9 | There 's every chance she may go to Intensive Care if she deteriorates . ’ |
| 10 | Margaret Hughes , from Lentwardine in Herefordshire , has been warned she may go to prison after admitting 14 cases of cruelty to farm animals . |
| 11 | For all practical purposes at this stage sir she may appear to you to be a fit and proper person I 've no doubt the Licensing Committee will want to know a lot more about the situation sir . |
| 12 | Indeed , she may give to a litter of mixed paternity . |
| 13 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 14 | Only one important factor emerged : she must apologise to Luke for misjudging him so . |
| 15 | Taking her sister 's hand , she found there was nothing else for it , but she must press to the point . |
| 16 | I love Ma , but she must expect to be unhappy because she 's reached that time of life . |
| 17 | She knew that she must speak to Louise . |
| 18 | She insists that she must speak to you . ’ |
| 19 | She must go to sleep next to her murdered lover , talking of breakfast , and she must then persuade the Cook to prepare the body for eating . |
| 20 | As a first step she must go to Paris to meet the Ministers and in the early hours of the morning she left by carriage for the Tuileries , where , on arrival , she immediately sent messages convoking a Council of Ministers . |
| 21 | She had been content to stay in the house all day and to try to clean it ; but Mrs Aggie had told her she must go to school , at least for part of the day . |
| 22 | Whatever the risk , she must go to him and tell him to go back . |
| 23 | At last the party broke up when Felicity announced that her spine felt as though it were about to collapse and that she must go to bed . |
| 24 | If no embalmers collect her tomorrow , she must go to the lime pit . ’ |
| 25 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 26 | I want to assure him Crevecoeur is in no danger , but that SHe must return to Club Eleusis . ’ |
| 27 | Dame Agatha took Father Reynard by the sleeve and they walked away , the young sister apologising loudly for being late and asking if Father would give her the altar breads as she must return to the priory . |
| 28 | She was unhappily aware of the picture she must present to him : her long bare legs as straight as a ramrod ; her spine curved downwards from her elevated buttocks ; and her seat raised so vulnerably . |
| 29 | When he had gone , Tess felt again how stupid she must appear to him . |
| 30 | Three visits from her husband had helped , perhaps ( the first in the small hours of the Sunday morning , two hours after his release from custody ) , but some slight complications had arisen with continued internal bleeding , and she had become deeply and embarrassingly conscious of how she must appear to everyone whenever she smiled . |