Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them must do it . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 3 | " I may do , when I return from town . |
| 4 | ‘ I may do . |
| 5 | Erm and I think I may do one in the middle of there and then leave that s like that . |
| 6 | I have something very important that I ought to do . ’ |
| 7 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 8 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 9 | Faced with the absurdity of British public life , I sometimes think I ought to do the same , turning this space into a museum of grotesque items displayed without comment . |
| 10 | ‘ I ought to do some work , ’ said Joe , who felt events were causing him to fall behind with his current commission . |
| 11 | Just as there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This is a pleasant experience ’ to saying ‘ This is a good thing ’ , so there is a substantial move from saying ‘ This act will produce the best consequences ’ to saying ‘ I ought to do this act ’ . |
| 12 | Surely someone can meaningfully say ‘ I ought to do this , because I promised , even though better consequences would ensue from my doing something else which would involve breaking the promise . ’ |
| 13 | Even though I 've got the option of not doing it , I do n't really feel I could not do it , because I feel I ought to do it . |
| 14 | I 'm very aware there 's lots of johs I ought to do — I used to be pretty thorough — and there are things I have n't got the time to do . |
| 15 | It 's the logical thing to do , now ; it 's what I ought to do . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not doing what I ought to do , ’ he kept saying to himself . |
| 17 | I am not doing what I ought to do . |
| 18 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 19 | PAMELA : Leave me and I will do anything I ought to do . |
| 20 | Pamela , judge for me , tell me what you think I ought to do . |
| 21 | what I think I ought to do , what I think others do , what I want to do . |
| 22 | I used to think that I ought to do everything and then at least I could n't blame myself for not having done enough . |
| 23 | ‘ I thought I ought to do something , ’ Dickinson said , ‘ but I could n't think what . |
| 24 | I ought to do something about it . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I have this feeling I ought to do something . |
| 26 | I ought to do something more . |
| 27 | I think what you and I ought to do is sit down we ought to list the pros and cons and problems of and look at them afresh and then maybe talk to Tom anyway . |
| 28 | And yet another client of mine who 's a teacher , she said oh yeah she said it 's lovely , she said I suppose I ought to do the marking and all that at the beginning she said but I leave it , she said , and I sometimes do it in the last week . |
| 29 | But if I and mine prepare to defend the kingdom , you and yours must do the same . |
| 30 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |