Example sentences of "[vb mod] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 2 | I looked at the two of them , ‘ You ought to go and have yourselves examined . ’ |
| 3 | To his surprise and discontent the first two thought that he ought to go . |
| 4 | Despite the advice of William Telfer that he ought to go , Cambridge was not pleased with Ramsey . |
| 5 | London was coming vacant and London was a more important see than York and Coggan ought to go there . |
| 6 | The commission has no criterion , because it can have no criterion , to decide which prices ought to go up and by how much , or vice versa . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps we ought to go inside . ’ |
| 8 | You could argue — and some do — that such puddings ought to go the way of the dodo now that we all lead more sedentary and centrally heated lives . |
| 9 | The balance between the Bank 's traditional operations and those of the IFC should be shifted further in the latter 's direction ; that is why the IFC 's capital increase ought to go ahead . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe I ought to go have ( done ) to me what Casey had done , ’ North told a friend bitterly ; ‘ take my brain out , and leave me alone . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe we ought to go now . |
| 12 | He [ Mozart ] ought to go off , travel to Italy and make a name for himself . |
| 13 | Sir Rufus Stone suggested that we ought to go round with photographs , until we find her parents . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ You ought to go up . ’ |
| 16 | On Friday and Saturday tea-times , we would sometimes fantasize about which pub we ought to go to and what we would eat afterwards . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 — ‘ |
| 18 | ‘ We ought to go and see — and make sure , Shirley ! ’ |
| 19 | They ought to go back where they belong . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you think we ought to go along and support her ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So it might , ’ he said , ‘ we ought to go and hunt it . |
| 22 | ‘ We ought to go straight back by the paths . |
| 23 | This shows that he is not really aware of the shape relationship at all , but just remembers or ‘ has a feeling ’ that it ought to go there . |
| 24 | I ought to go — the office must open around nine . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You ought to go back to school tomorrow . ’ |
| 26 | Genuine honours for political services ought to go to Robert Atkins , the Tory MP with whom Major hatched his leadership strategy during a barge holiday in 1986 ; Alan Duncan , who let his Westminster house be used for the Major leadership campaign ; Sarah Hogg , head of the Downing Street policy unit , who thought up the Citizen 's Charter ; Bernard Perkins , leader of the Conservative group on Lambeth Council in 1968 , who gave Major the vice chairmanship of the housing committee , Jean Lucas , formerly Tory agent in south London , and one of Major 's early political mentors — and last , but not least , Barbara Laguerre , who deprived Major of a job as a bus conductor , by getting it herself . |
| 27 | ‘ We ought to go to another town , ’ says one . |
| 28 | Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow . |
| 29 | In so doing , ‘ he gave me experience , opportunity , leadership and clear sight about where I ought to go ’ . |
| 30 | It is n't fair , and it ought to go The legislation governing taxation of capital gains is full of anomalies and should be repealed |