Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 2 | We 'd better be getting along . " |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd better be getting back . |
| 4 | It was Amy who said : ‘ Look , I 'd better be getting back . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd better be getting back . |
| 6 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better be getting back or the foreman will be giving me the sack . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I 'd better be getting down to the bus … |
| 9 | So any knife you might have in your hand had better be put back in its sheath ! ’ |
| 10 | Never mind the crater in the window , never mind the tyres with several thousand miles scraped off their lives , never mind some brand new little glitch that had better be sorted out a.s.a.p. in the cab 's suspension . |
| 11 | It was a protective capability , I 'd heard — a black mist that could suddenly be blown out in a huge , binding cloud . |
| 12 | ‘ That was a dream move for him and meant a big transformation for a lad of his age to suddenly be pitched in with the stars at Liverpool , ’ said England Under-21 boss Lawrie McMenemy . |
| 13 | Nor could much be shaved off of AML 's purchasing inventory , Connolly hide and bespoke cylinders being notoriously inflexible on pricing . |
| 14 | Some word processing functions will apparently be bucked up and international versions are due soon , including localizing it for the company 's new exclusive Japanese distributor Sumisho Electronics . |
| 15 | they 'll obviously be moving about and tutors ca n't be faffing round every two minutes if something goes wrong . |
| 16 | For example , some really hard cases write adoring letters to Judith Chalmers and should obviously be banged up in solitary confinement without a moment 's delay . |
| 17 | Just to say that we do monitor the numbers going into , to residential care very very closely so we would we would be able to tell sort of reasonably early in the year if things were going erm way of our projections of our predictions and er we would obviously be coming back to you to see to er to change our budgets erm if , if that proved necessary . |
| 18 | if he 's going to come out , they 'll be coming out , well it 's Thursday today , yeah , so be coming out Friday , yeah ? |
| 19 | It has got inherent checks and balances , it has its own agreement , it is professionally run and there is no function for the president of the FISA here other than to turn up occasionally and literally be seen about . |
| 20 | ‘ In this weather they should more or less be thawed out . |
| 21 | That is , everyone in an organization should constantly be thinking through what information he or she needs to do the job and to make a contribution . |
| 22 | The two older seated men can only be fitted in as they are in fig. 124 : behind the chariot on our right ; and next the figure in the other angle . |
| 23 | Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount . |
| 24 | The fleece should only be gathered up when it is dry for storage to avoid mould developing . |
| 25 | ‘ A trustee can only be indemnified out of the pockets of his cestuis que trust against costs , charges , and expenses properly incurred for the benefit of the trust — a proposition in which the word ‘ properly ’ means reasonably as well as honestly incurred . |
| 26 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 27 | Although the initiators had a reasonably clear idea of what they wished to achieve and of the means by which this might be pursued , the fine detail could only be thrashed out as the project proceeded . |
| 28 | The real force and power of God 's ‘ Yes ! ’ can only be heard along with the ‘ No ! ’ that is necessarily carried with it . ) |
| 29 | This would not only reduce its political significance but it would allow for yearly increases ( though broadcasters have been quick to point out that the general rate of inflation is below the industry 's rate and so an increase would still leave a shortfall which can only be made up by savings ) . |
| 30 | The shortfall can only be made up by the sale of programmes and income from official car parks — so spectators are asked to support both . |