Example sentences of "well [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 2 | They may be better placed financially than many tenants , but their security of tenure can end with retirement . |
| 3 | Yet , I will go on to argue that black kids seriously involved in sport tend to be rather better placed academically than others who may not be immersed in sport . |
| 4 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd better explain why that is . |
| 7 | Each day he came twice to the banker 's house and sat in the sickroom , warm and better furnished now , and kept his lover company ; sometimes talking , sometimes in silence . |
| 8 | We 'd better stay away from here for the moment . ’ |
| 9 | You 'd better stay here with your waggon . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd better stay here , with me . ’ |
| 11 | Er er er you know if there was a bad storm somebody would oh you better stay here today too again and he might be there three or four days . |
| 12 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 13 | It is like the Ides of March , and we had all better stay indoors . |
| 14 | You 'd better stay out of my sight . ’ |
| 15 | Better to stroll back the way she had come , then perhaps she would cross over the road and look in the souvenir shop . |
| 16 | ‘ but I 'd better eat soon . ’ |
| 17 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 18 | B : You 'd better make straight for the bank , otherwise you 'll be too late . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better make up your mind . ’ |
| 20 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 21 | ‘ Better to go straight upstairs . |
| 22 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 23 | His macabre The Paradise Motel ( Bloomsbury , £12.95 ) is even worse , or better depending how much you enjoy nightmares . |
| 24 | Maybe I 'd better wing out there right away and have them fix me up with a temporary . |
| 25 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 26 | We 'd better think up an excuse . |
| 27 | So all those of us who have been taught it is healthy to eat potato skins had better think again . |
| 28 | Anybody who thought that Bath 's tight grip on the Pilkington Cup was over had better think again . |
| 29 | Until we sift the evidence ourselves , we ca n't comment objectively except to say that as far as the publicity campaign is concerned , Microsoft had better think again . |
| 30 | If businesses think that they would escape , protected by a fair and stable business rate , they had better think again . |