Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ As the other dressers have vanished , you 'd better stay up this end and make yourself very visible . |
| 3 | I 'd better get out this side I think . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you 'd better find rather more time that that , ’ he returned coolly . |
| 5 | More hours did generally mean more advertising revenue for ITV , and the companies frequently pressed the government for expansion . |
| 6 | Numerically , it was an impressive record but it did not bear too much scrutiny . |
| 7 | In the example , no claim in tort would lie if the hot water bottle did not give off enough heat . |
| 8 | Alice bought a hot water bottle from a retailer which did not give off any heat . |
| 9 | One with a job during the day , who enjoyed looking after her small domain , and who did not demand too much attention from her landlady . |
| 10 | It was becoming the rule not the exception that launches did not go right first time , but BBC2 settled down quite quickly as a recognized minority channel . |
| 11 | He was not right after the race and did not appear again all season but I like the way he has been stretching out and he could win here before making his mark in middle distance Group company . |
| 12 | The Telegraph 's management believes that when it moved to Docklands , more than two years ago , it failed to modernise fully journalistic work practices , and did not realise how new technology could be used to reduce the number of editing jobs . |
| 13 | At the same time , he suspects , life offices did not realise how tough regulation would be . |
| 14 | Naturally I did not do quite that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 15 | However they did not eat significantly more chocolate or feel greater cravings than eaters who made no secret of their habit . |
| 16 | So , the primary or preferred mode of transmission was the indirect consular channel , from the consul of the requesting State to an authority designated for the purpose by the State addressed ; a Contracting State could , however , still insist on the use of the diplomatic channel , and the new Convention did not preclude more direct communication between competent authorities by agreement between the States concerned . |
| 17 | Although we identified the exchange rate as one of these important variables , we did not examine how different exchange rate systems affect the adjustment process . |
| 18 | Our meeting with the ACPO representative did not bring about any change in this position , and we had to admit that we shared their concern for road safety . |
| 19 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 20 | She did not sleep well that night . |
| 21 | He did not sleep well that night . |
| 22 | Fabia did not sleep well that night and , though Ven returned quietly in the early hours of Tuesday morning , she was awake , and heard him coming in . |
| 23 | We did not sleep much that night . |
| 24 | Angel was glad to be at home , and yet he did not feel so much part of the family as he used to . |
| 25 | Intravenous infusion of phenylephrine produced a sustained increase in blood pressure , but phenylephrine did not affect either basal gall bladder pressure or the response to CCK-8 ( Table I ) . |
| 26 | It had been a hard-fought victory , and Commanche Run did not race again that season . |
| 27 | Bathsheba and her husband did not speak much that evening , or the following day . |
| 28 | In a study of nearly 500 women , they found that zinc supplements did not improve either foetal health or reduce the number of pre-term labours . |
| 29 | However , she did not rule out some compulsion in some schemes . |
| 30 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |