Example sentences of "feel [pers pn] ought to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do you feel it ought to be a free market erm situation , at least to the extent that anyone can move into any area they wish to provided they could find a place to live ? |
| 2 | I feel I ought to be nice to them wherever possible . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel I ought to be making it . ’ |
| 4 | I feel we ought to be able to give you a better idea of the performance of different planning authorities . |
| 5 | We need to hear from the local churches , from the district councils what 's going on wha what the issues that concern you are so let's as well the ones that you see downstairs , we may already be addressing so have a look down there have a look at the , the information but if there are any issues you feel we ought to be addressing then please let us know so that we can put them on our agenda . |
| 6 | They feel they ought to be immune and , in their health , superior to lay people . |
| 7 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 8 | I just felt I ought to be doing something and so I stuck to it . |
| 9 | I felt I ought to be thinking something momentous . |
| 10 | I suspect Mrs feels she ought to be signing them not the |
| 11 | But they had made a pleasant enough scene , one with which she felt she ought to be able to identify . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There had begun to develop in Minton a dichotomy between the praise he received and what he felt he ought to be . |
| 14 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 15 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |