Example sentences of "ought [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , probably if you want me to get that old mower going I ought to go up to Woods and see if I can get a new drive belt . |
| 2 | ‘ You ought to go back to school tomorrow . ’ |
| 3 | So do n't go telling her she ought to go back to that dump in the sky . ’ |
| 4 | Radji thinks he ought to go back to Teheran so as not to be lumped with the more infamous of the Shahs associates " in peoples minds . |
| 5 | The Freudian realistic view it seems to me , could n't allow you to draw either conclusion , you could n't , neither conclude , that things were better in the past and therefore we ou ought to go back to the golden age , nor , could you conclude that things will ever be any better in the future . |
| 6 | This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best . |
| 7 | Do you think you ought to go back to bed ? |
| 8 | ought to go back to amateur , proper amateur |
| 9 | So I think we ought to go back to what David Waldon said earlier on , which was about the thirty nine million pound increase in the budget since nineteen eighty five . |
| 10 | The sister did not like this at all and called the paediatrician , who examined and decided that he ought to go down to the special care baby unit after all . |
| 11 | I ought to go down to the police station . |
| 12 | They ought to stand up to the goons . ’ |
| 13 | She really ought to stand up to him . |
| 14 | In order to help us I think in our discussions , it seems to me that , I think we ought to write formally to the County Council and to the District Council actually asking them for more details of their consideration for what they intend to do about parishes . |
| 15 | Perhaps you ought to write in to Nature . |
| 16 | Respondents from medium-sized and large firms , especially the former , once again argued that the requirement , if introduced , ought to apply exclusively to sole practitioners . |
| 17 | if you 've booked it , I said you ought to look forward to it but er , I suppose it 's just come over her |
| 18 | One thing we did discuss at committee but I think it ought to be put to the A G M we discussed the increase in the cost of er , admission erm we held our prices down for at least a couple of years we had a heavy outlay on cushions I do feel that erm we ought to put in to the meeting what we discussed at committee that be raised from two fifty and one twenty five to three pounds and two pounds for the concessions including students and erm the youngsters . |
| 19 | I felt I ought to call out to Malpass or maybe go and see if he was okay . |
| 20 | The injunctions set the standards that we ought to live up to , and their effect is to make people 's self-esteem contingent on living up to them . |
| 21 | ‘ I think we all ought to hang on to something . |
| 22 | ‘ Instead of playing games with us , you ought to face up to your responsibilities and the consequences of your actions — ’ |
| 23 | Maybe at this point we ought to get on to some … |
| 24 | ‘ Thanks , David , but I 've bent the rules enough ; I really ought to get on to the village and see to this wretched food distribution . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose we really ought to get down to some serious work , ’ Ruth suggested lazily , stretching her legs under the table and gazing out across the blue bay of Palma with its crowd of boats and yachts bobbing and , beyond , the profusion of high-rise apartments and hotels . |
| 26 | " I ought to get back to Peach . " |
| 27 | ‘ I ought to get back to work . ’ |
| 28 | But since it is quite unfair that the intention of the deceased should be deceived by a freedman , he ought to make over to the testator 's sons the hundred left to him , as in a similar case our late Emperor Marcus also made this ruling . |