Example sentences of "ought to have have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Sure , ’ said Crocker , ‘ he ought to have had his own being a war baby and a cog in the welfare state . |
| 3 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 4 | If he succumbs to temptation after all and suffers the consequences , it would be to the point to say ‘ You should have known better ’ or ‘ You ought to have had more sense ’ , reproaches which derive their authority from ‘ Face facts ’ ; but it would be irrelevant ( and exasperating ) to say ‘ You should n't have made yourself ill like that ’ , on the authority of the ‘ You do n't want to be sick ’ of the practical syllogism interpreted as ‘ Do n't get sick ’ . |
| 5 | ( Simon was drinking quite heavily then , even Mr James said she ought to have had allowed for that . ) |
| 6 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |
| 7 | He knew that there was a whisper among the men that they ought to have had Fergus with them , but Lugh knew that Fergus was no great loss . |
| 8 | Such exclusions may also cover matters of which the vendor ought to have had knowledge and should have disclosed . |
| 9 | But against that , although I know that he 'd took three or four very good jobs that I ought to have had , but he was a very , very good detective , a hard working inspector . |
| 10 | Er er do you reckon we ought to have had , you kn you know we went over to gas , I toyed with the idea of fetching that do you know , you know when this house were built we went looking at a depot where they 've got all these grates and I took th funnily enough I took the measurements of the breast and er the only one we found was just that dead on look , right across |
| 11 | You really ought to have had some gloves you know . |
| 12 | As I say I ought to have had savvy enough , Edgeware Road , the first part of it , is purely commercial as you know , er er erm but I had n't realized that at the time . |
| 13 | Well , Britain is the country which ought to have had the proletarian revolution before any other . |
| 14 | Yeah I definitely think she ought to have have a check up better to have a check you and it be nothing , than just keep hanging on saying it 'll go away and it does n't , it just gets worse . |