Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel had better watch out for him in his rear-view mirror . |
| 2 | Poets like Woodhouse had best go back to their jobs . |
| 3 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 4 | True to his predictions , the population of Europe and North America did indeed grow dramatically in the 150 years that followed . |
| 5 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 6 | Lady Beatrice ignored my wandering eye , young Rachel dared only smile shyly at us , whilst the Agentes were a law unto themselves . |
| 7 | High-church men such as Gladstone and Wilberforce did indeed stick closer to the literal text of the Bible than their twentieth-century successors would ; they saw all its books as an inspired unit , ‘ Holy Scripture ’ . |