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Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I think you ought to go in your really .
2	You might also consider whether they ought to continue with their attempt to run a second restaurant at all .
3	She 's very kind , but we ought to stand on our own feet .
4	The requirement of knowledge in paragraph ( c ) is clearly of ‘ actual ’ rather than of constructive knowledge , though a person who ought to know of his animal 's vicious characteristics may , of course , still be liable for negligence .
5	The Law Commission committee says that this principle is not good enough ; sellers should be under a legal duty to reveal everything they know and ought to know about their property — which would oblige them to carry out a survey before offering it for sale .
6	However , by-products are by-products , and we ought to concentrate on its intended use .
7	Are we prepared to discipline ourselves to restrictions and regulations that we feel we ought to impose for our own good ?
8	If this club wants to know how to make money then it ought to listen to my boy Chester .
9	‘ Ruddy black mark , Archie , ’ said Joe , ‘ ought to tread on your foot , you bugger .
10	They ought to look in their own back yard first ! ! ! ! !
11	I am , I fear , betraying the confidence which a banker ought to respect for his customers , but I have thought deeply about it and decided that I must .
12	Workers are only too aware that Ford of Britain 's pre-tax profits doubled to more than £673m in the last financial year and they feel they ought to share in its success .
13	The stockpile of grief continued to grow unrecognized in the business of her life , disguised by the use of prescribed and acquired sedatives and tranquillizers that she used to cope with her ‘ nerves ’ .
14	She always used to sit with her legs open and these bloody knickers
15	Later in the conversation , he said ‘ I used to sit at my desk and fear — the unknown , or that we would all be killed .
16	When I was feeding , used to sit on my knee too and we would read books around him .
17	She used to sit behind her desk looking very prim and proper , and er I do n't , I do n't quite honestly think we would 've dared say anything to her at all .
18	She used to sit behind her desk like this with her legs open and her knickers used to come down here , pink ones and blue ones .
19	She used to sit by my bed for hours when she was off duty .
20	He sat at the table at the upstairs window , as Montaine used to sit in her room in the smallholding , overlooking a view much like the one she loved over heathland towards the forest .
21	He used to sit in his study the whole time .
22	I used to sit in my living room with my mouth open , eyes raised to heaven waiting for something to happen to give me this new boldness and this ability to speak in tongues which seemed often to accompany the events in Acts .
23	and when you try t in the past when I tried to find some way of imposing discipline , there is no way because quite rightly , you 're not allowed to strike children , I never wanted to and I I hardly ever did at one school where there was a marvellous spirit of give and take I used to whip off my little black velvet slipper occasionally and whack some of the larger boys about the top of the thigh .
24	He used to go to their shows and just show up out of nowhere . ’
25	No. — He used to go to our school , that 's all .
26	Did he used to go to your school ?
27	Olive that used to go to my school ?
28	I used to go to his characters for help as a Catholic might go to a priest or a sick man to his doctor .
29	To go to Harwich , yes , they erm , the Salvation Army , once a year that 's where they used to go on their for their treat .
30	Erm they looked after the w the ropes and er there was one one blacksmith , where he used to go on his rounds and check check the wire ropes and the hooks and that on the inclines you know .