Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 2 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 3 | If this stranger was who he claimed to be , he supposed he 'd better do as he was told . |
| 4 | As such , they are part of an extremely ancient tradition for Assyrian mothers who used to scare recalcitrant children with the scarecrow Narses ; and a warning widely repeated today is very similar : ‘ You 'd better do as I say , or the boogeyman will get you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better do it , then . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better do something about supper . ’ |
| 7 | " Perhaps you 'd better do so now . " |
| 8 | " Maybe you 'd better do for me too , then , " Sam replied , " for it was my cockboat we rowed across in , and I 'm the only witness to the murder , for that 's what it was . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better do as I say , Shih Herrick and get me out of here . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd better do another week 's supply , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ But you 'd better do as he tells you . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think we 'd better do that , however . ’ |
| 13 | And if you want our partnership to last though this flight to Fraxilly , you 'd better do what you said and put the whole Gharr episode out of your mind . ’ |
| 14 | Nine four we 'd better do had n't we ? |
| 15 | If you want to be out on that pitch when the referee blows his whistle , you 'd better do it now . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd better do something about improving it . |
| 17 | " Yes , we 'd better do something about that . " |
| 18 | Oh you 'd better do the last one Doctor |
| 19 | We 'd better do as she says or we 'll not get a cup o' tea . |
| 20 | But Des points out that everybody else on this road is running anyway , and if we want to stay unnoticed we 'd better do the same . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd better do your foot-care routine now , Faye , because I should be going soon too . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle . |
| 23 | Then I 'd better do something to prevent you . ’ |
| 24 | The Pope says that since God initially made us multiply , as is obvious from looking around even the famine fields of Ethiopia , we 'd better do as much of it as we can . |
| 25 | He replaced the receiver and said , ‘ You 'd better do enough for four . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd better do it , ’ her maid whispered . |
| 27 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 28 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 29 | But you 'd better do it carefully . |
| 30 | So you 'd better do some heroing . |