Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd better talk the whole thing over . ’ |
| 2 | And when you run against him you 'd better wear the right protection . |
| 3 | TIME FOR A BIT OF FUN , and we 'd better involve the whole band in this one . |
| 4 | We 'd better empty the whole kitchen then had n't we ? |
| 5 | I think we 'd better forget the whole idea . ’ |
| 6 | Now I 'd better check the answering machine … ’ |
| 7 | took the first call , but I 've just been speaking to him , and you 'd better have the full picture . ’ |
| 8 | Then I figured I 'd better try the same approach on guitar , so I put a really high nut on this old Gibson Melody Maker and I started using bottleneck on it . |
| 9 | So I thought I 'd better bury the poor thing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , if you 've now decided that you are n't prepared to look after Emma and Sophie , if you do n't care about their future welfare or happiness , then I suggest you 'd better catch the next plane back to England . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better take the old bastard back . ’ |
| 12 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 13 | The need to carry out ‘ proper ’ audits has been spelled out to firms , and those that do not do so run the serious risk of losing their right to act as company auditors . |
| 14 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd best fetch the smaller basket , ’ she said , ‘ on account of your condition , begging yer pardon , ma'am . ’ |
| 16 | But whatever you do do n't miss the amazing Gorge du Verdon , a European version of the Grand Canyon where the river wends between 500-metre cliffs . |
| 17 | Looks like the 11 I predicted will be playing saturday |
| 18 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 19 | Russell J. then said that ‘ Mrs. Jones did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document ’ but repeated that ‘ the absence of independent advice is fatal to the claim . ’ |
| 20 | In the latter case this was notwithstanding a finding that the wife ‘ did sufficiently understand the general nature of the document . ’ |
| 21 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 22 | The court took the view , which was to be expressly repudiated in later cases , that although there was jurisdiction to entertain the action against the German corporation , this did not give the Californian court jurisdiction over persons or property in Germany . |
| 23 | The company , which is trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , did not give the nine month figures . |
| 24 | The 1952 Works Constitution Law spread workers ' powers more widely across German industry , although this act did not give the same degree of influence as was provided in the coal and steel industries . |
| 25 | It did not want the political centre of gravity to shift across the river . |
| 26 | Assad did not want the civil war to continue , for if Lebanon suffered any more wounds some of its blood might seep into Syria , through those narrow grey wadis in the anti-Lebanon mountain range and down into the plateau beyond , perhaps even infecting Damascus , whose carefully balanced but Alawite-controlled metabolism had so far remained untouched by the epidemic on the other side of the border . |
| 27 | The latter did not want the prime ministership , calculating that another tough spell of cohabitation could damage his presidential chances in 1995 . |
| 28 | For thoroughly understandable reasons , however , it was not to these people that Hitler turned for his image of the German : he did not want the average German for the SS , he wanted supermen for the conquest of the east . |
| 29 | So it is clear that Bukharin did not make the elementary mistake that Rosdolsky attributed to him . |
| 30 | It did not make the general pool of jobs any larger . |