Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better not stand about . ’ |
| 2 | " You 'd better not go over with that on you , " he said , looking at her middle . |
| 3 | ‘ All right , Pip , but if she is n't happy to see you , better not go again . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 5 | And just in case I may say things I 'll be sorry for , I 'd better not go on , except for one last word . |
| 6 | Right so I just stopped at the paracetamol , and I says , Och , I 'd better not go back up . |
| 7 | Well perhaps we better not go down cos we shall have |
| 8 | Confused now at all the permutations of possibilities , Chesarynth decided on the safest course : I 'd better not give too much away . |
| 9 | it maybe my Lord that there 's a judge upstairs better not to sit tomorrow afternoon but to sit on Friday |
| 10 | ‘ It wo n't take long , but she 'd better not stay here . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't ask ; I told Gina where I was going but I 'd better not stay too long . ’ |
| 12 | " Still , I 'd better not stay long with the sepoys attacking … |
| 13 | Oh well , maybe I 'd better not try then ! |
| 14 | So I 'd better not hang around here much longer . |
| 15 | Flavia enjoyed the paper-games and , as she had said , the dancing ; she went nearly as often as she was asked ( Better not hang about too much in the house on the bay ) ; she enjoyed the company … moderately . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd better not hang about , then . ’ |
| 17 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 18 | I 'd better not come down , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 19 | Just wait until I get the time and I 'll show them who 's boss … but I 'd better not wait too long ! |
| 20 | But I 'd better not keep on like this or I 'll be accused of queering Mr Karlinsky 's pitch . |
| 21 | And she 'll forgive him just this once and it had better not happen again . |
| 22 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 23 | and how much not to do really . |
| 24 | There are shops in plenty , banks , hotels , guest houses and many private houses within a pattern of streets apparently not developed haphazardly , but laid to a master plan . |
| 25 | But it 's a tune authorities are apparently not hearing enough . |
| 26 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 27 | Pilger had agreed but had apparently not realized how this weakened his position . |
| 28 | In the same way he lauded the pilots , calling them ‘ some of the bravest people I 've ever met in my life ’ , apparently not noticing that much of their fortitude was required simply to fly the shocking aircraft and the hapless missions with which he had entrusted them . |
| 29 | Answer guide : If concise objectives are not set organizations will tend to drift a long not knowing where they are going . |
| 30 | At Time 11 this light was inadvertently not switched on . |