Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface .
2 You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto !
3 If the family is sitting round peacefully sipping coffee , someone may suddenly rush out of the room .
4 There is no real common denominator that can be used to classify the ‘ Originals ’ , the first fifty-odd recruits to the SAS , some of whose names will constantly crop up during the course of this book .
5 Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter .
6 ‘ We have invested a lot of money in people , offices and warehousing over the last two years ; and this will only show through in the company 's profits in 1994–95 . ’
7 There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could .
8 ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way .
9 He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way .
10 Seven years … but still every now and then one of them will suddenly run out into the street screaming . ’
11 and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way
12 It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’
13 If you get your books right , it 'll all happen out on the shopfloor , all the manager has to do .
14 She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did !
15 I 'd only end up in the doghouse myself would n't I ?
16 And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was .
17 So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’
18 ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’
19 If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’
20 ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone .
21 ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car .
22 We 'd better go back to the burrow .
23 He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom .
24 But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place .
25 I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else .
26 ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey .
27 If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink .
28 Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’
29 Now upstairs there are people working , so when you get to the far end we ask you do n't go straight upstairs , if you can wait please and we 'll we 'll we 'll all you 'll all go up in the room together , .
30 Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move .
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