Example sentences of "you had better [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you had better stop |
| 2 | I 'm afraid your uncle is very ill and will probably die soon , so I think you had better stay in England , until you receive further news of him . ’ |
| 3 | Having begun in this historical vein , you had better stay with it . |
| 4 | ‘ You had better make sure , lady , or I send a message direct to Tracy . ’ |
| 5 | Actually , you had better make that two prawn things . ’ |
| 6 | You had better bring Maltote in . ’ |
| 7 | The child seemed so lost in thought she hardly looked where she was walking , and when they reached the gate of Matilda 's home , Miss Honey said , ‘ You had better forget everything I told you this afternoon . ’ |
| 8 | If you do , you will make her angry , and when the Headmistress gets angry you had better watch out . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , you had better tuck it out of the ‘ seducer 's ’ sight ! ’ |
| 10 | But he was overruled by the others ; one judge said ‘ you had better appoint them judges ; and then I will retire , because I see no use in having them to act in the same capacity in which we are acting ourselves ’ . |
| 11 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 12 | I thought : here is a new fashion trend , and Linford , if you want to be in the swing , you had better give some thought to it . |
| 13 | You had better give me a few days . |
| 14 | Maltote , you had better go with him . ’ |
| 15 | You had better go home now before it gets too late . |
| 16 | ‘ I think that you had better go , ’ Sally-Anne said — and she remembered with pride that she had not given an inch , had shown no emotion as her life had crumbled around her . |
| 17 | Okay Noel thank you for your er your time and being a good sport this afternoon and I hear you have a little one you had better go back and sort things out . |
| 18 | ‘ You had better go , ’ he said . |
| 19 | In addition to all the rationally established facts I formulate in the indicative mood , there is the imperative to respect them , expressed in injunctions of varying generality imposing varying degrees of obligation , ‘ You ought to know that ’ , ‘ You should have had more sense ’ , ‘ You had better check that ’ , ‘ You were wrong to overlook that ’ , and sometimes directly in the imperative mood , ‘ Face facts ’ ‘ Know thyself ’ , ‘ Think what you 're doing ’ . |
| 20 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |
| 21 | " Then you had better start exploring the coast for the villages which still build , own and crew these prahus . |
| 22 | ‘ You had better start worrying then . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll never get that ’ was the response that I got , ‘ You had better start with us ’ . |
| 24 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This time , ’ said Owen , ‘ you had better speak the truth . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps you had better switch the set on ? |
| 27 | And when you have , you had better avoid our territory , for we do not like weak eagles who hide behind the names of once-proud families like Wrath . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You had better change the lock on the door , ’ she had teased , ‘ because I might be tempted to peep at the manuscript . ’ |
| 29 | indicates that you had better shorten your sentences or use less elaborate words or both . |
| 30 | The economist 's view is : others will see that the logic of the situation calls for cheating , so you had better cheat , too . |