Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading these two books is a serious and problematic business , and if you 're looking for a bit of post-modern frivolity then you 'd best slip something else into your holiday holdall — Sebastian Faulk 's new novel . |
| 2 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 3 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 4 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 5 | Now I imagine yo you come from all different parts of the county so I 'd better tell you where they are . |
| 6 | Ok , so you 've had a great Christmas , but if your New Year 's resolution is to get back into shape then you 'd better check out Kathy Smith 's new Workout videos . |
| 7 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |