Example sentences of "she [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you asked him she ought to be put away for she was plainly off her trolley . |
| 2 | She ought to have worn high heels . |
| 3 | She ought to have guessed . |
| 4 | Both her mother and Lisa had been cross with her ; they both had felt she ought to settle down . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got a bloody calculator , ’ Phoebe would yell , ‘ she ought to be teaching you to think . ’ |
| 6 | She knew she ought to be furious that her mother had apparently not noticed that she did not bleed , that she did not eat , but until recently she had always been grateful . |
| 7 | She knew she ought to report the death , but felt she could not because of the passage of time . |
| 8 | She felt she ought to have bought a card . |
| 9 | They 'd say she ought to be put away . |
| 10 | In fact , he believed she ought to have done without them for vanity 's sake , as he did . |
| 11 | What disturbed her was the feeling , at the back of her mind , that there was something she ought to have understood . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's what it is , she ought to be back in school , a big girl like that . |
| 13 | She ought to be in a home ! |
| 14 | When Gazzer knocked at the back door , she was thinking , vaguely , that she ought to get dressed but she felt too apathetic to shift herself . |
| 15 | Isabel Lavender , now sixty-eight years old , sat before the mirror , the pretty amethyst brooch at her neck , and felt that she ought to have it , for it was owed to her , it was a little enough thing to covet . |
| 16 | Kathleen was kind but she would not bring herself to visit and Dorothea knew she ought not to have asked . |
| 17 | She ought , there and then , while with the Brownings , to have chosen that moment to outline her plan and ask for their co-operation . |
| 18 | Anne knew she ought to do something , ought to intervene . |
| 19 | Again , Anne felt she ought to do something but could not think of anything . |
| 20 | In a world where physiognomy was a respected practice , Leapor 's appearance may have given the Chauncys grounds to believe that the kitchen maid really was a person of no significance and that she ought to learn her station . |
| 21 | She ought n't to want him to wake properly , but she did . |
| 22 | She ought therefore to slip on the fur boots … put a little hay in the bottom of the coach … |
| 23 | ‘ Well ’ , I thought , ‘ she probably does not know how she ought to begin . ’ |
| 24 | And the way she put it , she ought to have been alive today , she could have taught them how to tell people about sex . |
| 25 | He 's writing about the people , including herself , who thought she ought to be punished because of her beauty and wickedness . |
| 26 | Of course , they associated being photographed with their father 's death , she ought to have foreseen that . |
| 27 | All she had to do was be more herself and less what she thought she ought to be . |
| 28 | She ought to be called Lucky , Lucky Something , a double-barrelled name like a smart horse , not just ordinary Lucky like an old mongrel . |
| 29 | For example , at first interview Mrs Kitchener 's daughter expressed a great deal of antagonism to her mother , talked at great length about the difficulties she experienced in caring for her mother and said that she had often told her mother — and other people — that she ought to be in a Home . |
| 30 | But growing up and learning how she ought to feel and behave , what she ought to value , means that she has to give up doing just as she pleases . |