Example sentences of "he ought to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North once offered Calero a bullet-proof vest — ‘ the same sort the President wears ’ — Only to find Calero shocked at the implication that he ought to be looking danger in the face . |
| 2 | I , far from it but I think here we should be encouraging him or , or highlighting the , the problem that he 's got that he ought to be looking at . |
| 3 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 4 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 5 | Put out of your mind any notion that he ought to be convicted in case he did it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is , of course , precisely what he ought to be seeing , ’ he agreed , reluctantly . |
| 7 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 8 | He ought to be wearing black . |
| 9 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 10 | Consequently , Julius Caesar was dressed in Elizabethan costume because no one thought that he ought to be dressed any differently . |
| 11 | ‘ A lovely animal , ’ she said , and the sisters nodded in agreement , ‘ but he ought to be trained . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He ought to be shot . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You said he ought to be shot . |
| 14 | ‘ She thinks he ought to be given the sack , but Mr Potter wo n't hear of it . |
| 15 | " He ought to be given a cup of coffee immediately . " |
| 16 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ He ought to be locked up , vicious loony like that , ’ and stood up . |
| 18 | It was probably something to do with the view that had convinced George he ought to be drinking a very large glass of dry sherry from the wood . |
| 19 | Once TOPIC and SEAQ screens had been introduced into a firm , the dealer could check what approximate price he ought to be getting , to be varied by what the firm took off or added to quote its price " net " of commission . |
| 20 | Instead of Bible teaching , he ought to be translating fine words into deeds . |
| 21 | Yeah , he ought to be hung . |
| 22 | If a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence is to be given the opportunity to make representation to the Secretary of State concerning the length of his tariff , as in my judgment he should be , then , for those representations to be effective , he ought to be made aware beforehand of the nature of the judge 's advice . |
| 23 | Just that perhaps he ought to be respected ! ’ |
| 24 | Both Sonatas are cleanly played , but the inner momentum of Rachmaninov 's first movement is lost : Yo-Yo Ma too often takes a back seat when he ought to be showing the lead , and this affects the balance . |
| 25 | He guessed that somewhere aboard the survey vessel a meeting was in progress to determine whether or not the quarantine regulations were to be obeyed , and whether that adherence meant that he ought to be abandoned . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She fingered the rose in her hands and said , ‘ You do n't think he ought to be supervised ? |
| 28 | She tried , saying : ‘ On the other hand , perhaps he ought to be told . |
| 29 | Dr Spink said : ‘ He ought to be defending those who are finding it difficult to make ends meet here . ’ |
| 30 | You know , he ought to be doing better things . |