Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] well [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will give me better control over any fish I may hook , for they will no doubt try to charge into the lilies on either side of the swim . |
| 2 | well he knew we did n't mean to sell it better do some of the ship tomorrow , where 's the , look you had one of the masts out , where is it ? |
| 3 | Still , do you think you better bleed it completely and let all the water out ? |
| 4 | Do n't you think you better wait till she comes back ? |
| 5 | Do you want a , er , do you wa , no I do n't think you better have a Beechams now , I think you better have one later . |
| 6 | I goes you better get a tetanus cos God knows what Dempsey 's got . |
| 7 | The Midland Bank 's small business and branch managers have been issued with a business information guide to help them better understand the needs of people wishing to set up a bookshop or specialist comic shop . |
| 8 | Lookout you get you better get on the thing . |
| 9 | Erm suppose I better check that round . |
| 10 | Suppose I better start in a minute , had n't I really ? |
| 11 | Oh , I suppose I better go and do that ironing ! . |
| 12 | And I suppose I better get er Carl 's birthday card while I 'm at it . |
| 13 | Suppose we better go back home ! |
| 14 | Erm suppose we better go then . |
| 15 | I decided we better call you chief foreman stevedore , and that 's what they call me , chief foreman , so that 's what they call 'em today , chief foreman stevedore . |
| 16 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 17 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
| 18 | I was upstairs bleeding the radiators , all air hisssss air whooshing out everywhere I thought I better check to see when I come in , that thing was full of water ! |
| 19 | I thought I better call and see how you were doing |
| 20 | I thought I better call and see how you were doing , now we know |
| 21 | I were looking for an alarm clock , I thought I better have a new one else I 'm gon na start sleeping in for work . |
| 22 | The doctors say he might go off sudden-like , so I thought I better warn you . ’ |
| 23 | It was sweet of you to go ; I just thought I better get something but once these attacks start it 's a bit too late to take anything really . |
| 24 | Yeah mate you better take the register downstairs . |
| 25 | She thought she better buy not only her way into heaven but that of all her husband and relations as well . |
| 26 | We do n't know why it was this little sort of dip , that reproduces you know , the configuration of it but why it was there , we do n't know , we thought we better put it back since it was there . |
| 27 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 28 | He said Apscore was one of the first companies to port its products to the Pick look-alike databases UniVerse and UniData , and now the Sun agreement will let them better support these products on Sun hardware . |
| 29 | ‘ I think I better go soon , I know you have a lot to talk about . ’ |
| 30 | I think I better go and get my … my handbag , ’ she managed at last . |