Example sentences of "[adv] we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps we 'd better find out about the woman . |
| 2 | So we 'd better get back behind our lines , because if the Germans catch us I ca n't believe they 'll invite us to join 'em for tea and crumpet . ’ |
| 3 | No I , I really , I 've got ta be very careful , that 'll be better cos it 's got the elastic , right we 'd better get on then had n't we ? |
| 4 | Yeah I was really attracted to him but I just could not speak to him , it was awful , and like there used to be awful pauses and you 'd just go er right we 'd better get off with each other again because you ca n't bear the silence , it 's too uncomfortable so you used to , and then you go oh shit better get off with him again , it 's awful , he 's and he used to have such a , no personality at all . |
| 5 | Now we 'd better get on if Mr Lawler is to get those grouse in time . ’ |
| 6 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 7 | Here we need only point out that for most of Nietzsche 's first readers — even readers familiar with his public lectures of 1870 — the style must have been quite unexpected . |
| 8 | ‘ But since we 're both going to have to stay under this roof for a couple of days , perhaps even longer , maybe we 'd better lay down some ground rules so that we can at least avoid open warfare . ’ |
| 9 | Maybe we 'd better find out . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe we 'd better find out just how much of a romantic you are , Dr Blake . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Then we 'd better get on with it , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 12 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |