Example sentences of "think [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah well Lucy thinks I ought to be horrible to them but well |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd think she ought to be allowed to get on with it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you think you ought to be asking some ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think you ought to be embarrassed about me now I 'm here , ’ she said . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think we ought to be doing this ? ’ she said in a rather strangled voice . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to be toddling off ? |
| 8 | But I do n't think we ought to be too dismayed about one letter like this . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 13 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I thought we ought to be able to help ourselves . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I thought we ought to be agreed , ’ Alexei said , and he smiled sourly . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 19 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She fingered the rose in her hands and said , ‘ You do n't think he ought to be supervised ? |
| 22 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 23 | ‘ She thinks he ought to be given the sack , but Mr Potter wo n't hear of it . |
| 24 | ‘ Rincewind thinks he ought to be able to harness the lightning , ’ said the picture-imp , who was observing the passing scene from the tiny doorway of the box slung around Twoflower 's neck . |
| 25 | I think she thinks he ought to be totally angelic , you know |
| 26 | Look , thanks for rescuing me , but if you do n't mind I think I ought to be going . |
| 27 | Erm I think I ought to be brief on this . |
| 28 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support . |
| 29 | I think she ought to be left alone . ’ |
| 30 | In fact , that 's probably what makes her so desirable , the fact that she 's young enough to be moulded into whatever you think she ought to be — ’ |