Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Does this mean when I go upstairs to bed , I ought to reset my watch when I come down in the morning because it 's got out of step with the clocks downstairs ? ’ |
| 2 | You ought to see her face , she 's going |
| 3 | you ought to see what she er , you ought to see her outfit she 's got , she 's nearly going around er , oh he , he can see her with different outfits on |
| 4 | Cos then Mike ought to see your operation as |
| 5 | You ought to see his house . |
| 6 | He gave the cheeky smile which always accompanied his guidance about the way other people ought to conduct their investigations . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought he ought to know which Queen we were fighting for , ’ he said afterwards . |
| 8 | The reason for the inclusion of ‘ to its knowledge ’ in ( a ) and ( b ) and its exclusion from ( c ) is that a subsidiary could well be ignorant , through no fault of its own , that it is a subsidiary , whereas a parent company ought to know what subsidiaries it has . |
| 9 | I suppose he just felt people ought to know what things were like people down South , you know . |
| 10 | ‘ Since we now own it , ’ Nora prompted , ‘ we ought to know its extent . ’ |
| 11 | Ought to know my bark 's worse than my bite . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Since you are Derek 's friends — or rather since you do n't care very much for his health and welfare I will not call you his friends but surely I ought to know your name ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to inform your maid ? ’ |
| 14 | Thus conservatives — try as they may to isolate their theology in a cocoon separate from human knowledge , culture and society-are in trouble . |
| 15 | Oh aye , you ought to meet her mum ! |
| 16 | ‘ She ought to try her hand at decorating china some time . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You ought to try your hand at some fiction one of these days . ’ |
| 18 | And this means that rather than attempting to answer the question " What are experiences ? " , in the manner of the conventional " philosophy of mind " , we ought to concentrate our attention on the question " How do experiences occur ? " , and analyse them qua types of evidential events . |
| 19 | However , although the landowners were refused leave to appeal by the Court of Appeal , they petitioned the Lords directly and ( no doubt because the Lords felt that this was an important public issue which ought to receive their attention ) were granted leave to appeal . |
| 20 | ‘ Small , but ought to serve your purposes . |
| 21 | Because we 're mum 's star sign , we think we ought to win your star prize . |
| 22 | ‘ You ought to discuss your betrothal , ’ Jotan said . |
| 23 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 24 | Nothing very dramatic here , then , but at least he was in the buying and selling game , not a wage slave , and there can hardly have been a time when it was not easier to sell the odd pork chop or two than it was to convince an employer that he ought to buy your skills as a craftsman . |
| 25 | Eliot 's letter of 22 October confirmed that he still had not received details from the Club ; but he understandably felt that while he could accept our invitation to tea , he ought to reserve his position about dinner . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Kokos , but I think I ought to hear what Anya has to say . ’ |
| 27 | But she was still slightly surprised when she found Father Barnes showing round groups of visitors , experts interested in Victorian architecture , who enthused over the baldachin , admired the Pre-Raphaelite paintings on the eight panels of the pulpit , or set up their tripods to photograph the apse , and who compared it , in confident , un-ecclesiastical tones ( surely even experts ought to lower their voices in church ) with the Cathedral of Torcello near Venice or with Blomfield 's similar basilica at Jericho in Oxford . |
| 28 | If the Court did in fact have jurisdiction over whether s 485 could be invoked , it ought to exercise its discretion to refuse to hear the summons . |
| 29 | It followed that the House had to consider afresh the principles upon which the court ought to exercise its discretion whether to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown . |
| 30 | The students were being fed contradictory messages and did what they could to lead their lives in the best way possible , given deteriorating conditions and mounting ideological and political debates . |