Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 " We 'd better catch up with the others , had n't we ? " he said quickly , gesturing along the track .
5 ‘ I think we 'd better head back to a city , you know .
6 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 .
7 Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter .
8 These were a valuable indicator , as they would only show up from a distance if you were ‘ on the line ’ .
9 ‘ 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 . ’
10 There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could .
11 ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way .
12 He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way .
13 Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance .
14 They need only look out at a sheep .
15 Seven years … but still every now and then one of them will suddenly run out into the street screaming . ’
16 I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done .
17 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
18 As Crick points out , however , the right idea can only fit in to a mind which is trained , and predisposed to accept that idea .
19 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 . ’
20 If you get your books right , it 'll all happen out on the shopfloor , all the manager has to do .
21 She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did !
22 We might then only end up with a series of discrete micro-studies that could not be articulated .
23 I 'd only end up in the doghouse myself would n't I ?
24 And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was .
25 So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’
26 ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’
27 ‘ We 'd better go through to the sports field , ’ said Robert .
28 If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’
29 ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone .
30 ‘ 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 .
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