Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey confessed that they had done a lot of harm and ought to apologize but said that the best of them were trying to , and that the Church of England ought to apologize to the high churchmen for the way in which it sometimes treated them . |
| 2 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 3 | The history teacher ought to go beyond the generalities of support for parliamentary democracy and liberty to help young people understand the changing nature of society , with its changing patterns of employment and unemployment , its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic nature with the changing status of women , and the ways in which moral attitudes and beliefs are being affected by science and technology . |
| 4 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 5 | Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons . |
| 6 | I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit . |
| 7 | No , you ought to go to a party and do one . |
| 8 | You ought to go to the Empress Monday nights . |
| 9 | Do you think you ought to go to the doctors again ? |
| 10 | Well everybody ought to go to the dentist if they want to keep their teeth nice and healthy . |
| 11 | I ought to go to the party . |
| 12 | I think you ought to go to the doctor 's about that |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Rosalind , ’ Peggy began in a rather shaky voice , ‘ but your letter got damaged and the policeman did n't think it ought to go in the post with a tear in it and so we came — ‘ |
| 14 | You ought to go in the Loco . |
| 15 | I mean this ought to go in the paper really . |
| 16 | This ought to go in the paper Mary , not boot not the car boot . |
| 17 | That camera , the camera equipment ought to go in The er Advertiser not the car boot sale . |
| 18 | I feel it ought to go before the A G M rather than just be agreed . |
| 19 | As usual , I felt that , on taking leave , I ought to proceed in a direction opposite to that which he was taking , because there was a mystery as to where Eliot lived , and I did not want to appear inquisitive . |
| 20 | That 's an argument that ought to appeal to the Noble Lords opposite if nothing else does ! |
| 21 | They were to make perambulations , distinguishing between those districts which ought to remain in the forest , and those which ought to be put out . |
| 22 | In August 1333 the king declared that divers woods and other places in Surrey had been unjustifiably disafforested under colour of the Statute of 1327 : there was evidence in ‘ divers inquisitions taken in the time of his progenitors and … other memoranda in the Exchequer ’ that they ought to remain in the forest . |
| 23 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 24 | She had enough sense to realise that this was one argument that ought to come to a stop right now . |
| 25 | Diana , and then we ought to come to a decision . |
| 26 | There may well be all sorts of contributory factors which need stating but these ought to come after the full apology . |
| 27 | If some clarity of purpose and coherence of action is to take the place of this drift , the ideas and energy ought to come from the political parties because , in theory , they are supposed to provide the driving force in political development . |
| 28 | Although the church has traditionally been reluctant to expose those to whom it delivers this service to public attention , the general assembly ought to know of the scale of the kirk 's response . |
| 29 | These benchmarks would indicate to teachers the things which all children ought to know at a particular stage of their development . |
| 30 | " Dr. Lorrimer — he 's the Principal Scientific Officer in charge of the Biology Department — says that I ought to work for an A-level subject and try for a job as an Assistant Scientific Officer . |