Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Duhamel and his team were visited by an immaculate Inspector-General who told them they really ought to plant a few flowers around the gloomy station . |
| 2 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 3 | ‘ I think we ought to circulate a bit , do n't you ? ’ |
| 4 | OME props ought to carry a warning . |
| 5 | ‘ Men like Luke Hunter ought to carry a government health warning , ’ she agreed . |
| 6 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 7 | Perhaps I ought to see a doctor . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I think you ought to see a psychiatrist . |
| 9 | He knew that he ought to see a physician , but was unwilling to do so lest he be told that he was not , after all , cured of syphilis . |
| 10 | Maybe I ought to see a doctor about my acid content or something . |
| 11 | So I think we ought to see a little bit more of these doctors and a little more of these pharmacists also backing the National Health Service up er which they should . |
| 12 | He ought to see a vet . ’ |
| 13 | The Hardy Hall and George and Marie cases introduced you to the idea that case studies ought to include a certain amount of financial and statistical data . |
| 14 | Stepping carefully over the gutter , Gonzalo remarked that I ought to wear a coat like he did . |
| 15 | The Havvie Blaines of this world ought to wear a sign warning decent women off — and he 's as handsome as the devil , which does n't help . ’ |
| 16 | Brother George told me that he had persuaded Eliot to include the passage in The Waste Land about the seduction of the ‘ bored and tired ’ typist by the small house-agent 's clerk , because he ( George ) thought that the young men ought to know a little more about the facts of life . |
| 17 | Perhaps , instead of seeing the whole operation as a put-up job , we ought to accept a changed concept of what a fifty-year-old looks like . |
| 18 | A senior minister , looking at the vast new platform which turned the Winter Gardens into a television set , suggested that it really ought to contain a pantheon for past leaders . |
| 19 | ‘ You ought to write a book . ’ |
| 20 | The objection may be signed by an agent , who , for his own protection ought to obtain a written mandate from those whom he represents : see subs . |
| 21 | ought to pass a vote of thanks to both of them for the sterling work they have done and I would be more than happy to er thank you |
| 22 | The time to change to a smaller hook is when a lack of bites suggests you ought to try a smaller bait . |
| 23 | If the sample is carefully selected , then the pattern of scores obtained by the sample ought to provide a close match for the pattern of scores which would be obtained if the whole population of children were to be tested . |
| 24 | Public service broadcasting ought to provide a ‘ daily service that is continuously and throughout infused with a sense of its public function ’ . |
| 25 | We ought to find a place where we can see what 's happening . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly ability as well as property ought to find a place in the legislature , but property ought to be " out of all proportion , predominant in the representation " . |
| 27 | Nothing would , nothing could go wrong today ; he ought to find a betting shop and put some money on a horse , he felt so lucky , so good , so in tune . |
| 28 | You did , so he 's come , he 's knocking that list off the total figure , with , because that list was higher , subsequently I 've managed to knock it down by about three or four percent anyway , erm , he 's , he 's knocking off a bigger sum than he should to produce a smaller welding price . |
| 29 | ‘ With so many of us we ought to set a rota for cooking . |
| 30 | Workers were reported as saying : ‘ Our government ought to reach a peace before our entire villages and towns are destroyed , since we ca n't do anything about it anyway . ’ |