Example sentences of "well [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 2 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 4 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 5 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 6 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 7 | ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 8 | He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’ |
| 13 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | We 'd better go back to the burrow . |
| 17 | He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom . |
| 18 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 19 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 21 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 22 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 23 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 24 | He had n't rung to make an appointment , better to turn up at the door and press the bell like any other cheapskate private detective . |
| 25 | Indeed , to the straight Grand Planners ( of which North was not one ) , hostages were better left out of the picture entirely . |
| 26 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’ |
| 27 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 28 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |