Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No time to say really — but we were just about off , and I was holding the books for Dad when he said , ‘ I 'd best get those papers for old Holroyd . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd better go another way home , the long way round . |
| 3 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 4 | I 'd better do that door I think . |
| 5 | ‘ Before we go I 'd better check this guy for a piece — or a tape recorder . ‘ |
| 6 | But honestly — I 'd better have that shower , had n't I ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I 'd better find another garage , ’ he said rather hopelessly . |
| 8 | I think I 'd better take these books back down again I think , oh mind you I can put them up here perhaps . |
| 9 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 10 | ‘ No problem , but if you want me in the village do n't you think I 'd better get some transport of my own ? |
| 11 | She shifted the rather heavy , though small , paper bag which she was carrying , and said : ‘ I guess I 'd better get some tea before all the cookies go . |
| 12 | I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this . |
| 13 | I 'd better get some clothies on cause a bit of a stir round the estate agents , naked from the waist down , darling |
| 14 | I 'd better get another box . |
| 15 | The sausages are done , I 'd better turn that oven off . |
| 16 | Oh oh right I 'd better turn this thing off now erm |
| 17 | Oh I can I do n't carry two cups I ca , dare n't carry a cup and saucer |
| 18 | Well I would n't er I do n't expect most things will completely but anyway we 'll see . |
| 19 | Well do the best you can er I do n't want exact words obviously but what was the burden of what he was the gist , the effects of what he was saying ? |
| 20 | oh yeah , he also used to have this , this bell , I du n no some weirdo just |
| 21 | I du n no last week were n't it ? |
| 22 | Er rounders which is er similar to er I du n no American baseball in , in a fashion is n't it ? |
| 23 | But I do not regard these factors as justifying sweeping away the law which for so long has regulated the conduct of charitable corporations . |
| 24 | However , I do not regard this problem as insuperable . |
| 25 | One can not prove a personal judgment of this kind , and I do not expect immediate assent to it . |
| 26 | I am a woman , and also a writer who has used up her allotment of renown during her own lifetime ; and on those two grounds I do not expect much pity , or much understanding , from posterity . |
| 27 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 28 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 29 | It is unacceptable to have headage limits for sheep — I do not mean new headage limits , but the present ones — because they do not deal with the problem . |
| 30 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |