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 Current Search - ought in The Catcher in the Rye
1  But you ought to see old Phoebe.
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2  That's what he'd told me I ought to do.
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3  You ought to go to a boys' school sometime.
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4  For one thing, I figured I ought to get some breakfast.
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5  He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all.
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6  You ought to see her doing her homework or something at that crazy desk.
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7  I wasn't at all hungry, but I figured I ought to at least eat something.
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8  I didn't know her too well then, and I didn't think I ought to cut in on her date.
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9  You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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10  I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it.
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