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`` I ought to be asleep, too, but I felt like a snack.
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) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.
Then, all but blind, he said there was nothing in Back to Methuselah --, -- `` G.B.S. ought to have known that '', -- and `` I look at my bookshelves despairingly, knowing that I can have nothing more to do with them ''.
When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.
`` I don't think I've reached the point, yet, where I can say I know everything I ought to know about the craft.
I and be
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
I and asleep
When a fisherman brought her up in his arms, still, small, as if she were a child asleep, I began to shudder with a terrible excitement, almost triumphant, that I still cannot account for.
" Thou canst not say I did it ", for example, can mean that Macbeth is not the man who actually killed Banquo, or it can mean that Duncan, who was asleep when Macbeth killed him, cannot claim to have seen his killer.
A further contributory singular cause of my being awoken by my alarm clock this morning was that I was lying asleep near it till it rang.
*« Je voudrais regarder un film et m ' endormir » (" I would like to watch a movie and fall asleep ") → « Je voudrais regarder un film et ne pas m ' endormir » (" I would like to watch a movie and not fall asleep ")
So it can mean " I am ( now ) falling asleep ", " I am ( in the future ) intending to sleep " or " I am leaving ( this event ) to ( go and ) sleep ")
Then five months later, I was on a plane, knackered for 24 hours, I was just falling asleep, and I remembered it.
At one point during the episode, he even says, " Maybe I have fallen asleep for twenty years like in that Rip Van Winklestone story.
One night, after the children were asleep, Minokichi said to Oyuki: " Whenever I see you, I am reminded of a mysterious incident that happened to me.
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