Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did they need somewhere to put up visiting employees ( and , increasingly , the necessary but not always welcome journalists ) they now needed a showcase for their home furnishing ideas . |
| 2 | Publishers will need deliberately to set aside a proportion of ‘ play money ’ , which they can afford to lose , but on which they will seek to recuperate the large returns that go with true risk investment . |
| 3 | Made him promise never to eat again or we 'd tie him to a tombstone . |
| 4 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't want just to tag along , Mum , and anyway , I told you , I 'm not their sort . |
| 6 | But people who knew the man say they think the council did n't do enough to find out if he was in need of help . |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't you do better to turn in ? ’ she asked . |
| 8 | Instead of towing amplified sweet nothings ahead of the school , they might do better to sit astern with a few well-chosen selections from The Osmonds ' Greatest Hits , or Singalongamax . |
| 9 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 10 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'd do better to jog home than drive . ’ |
| 13 | A man of ever-changing whims , and now I see you 're freed from your fearful collar , Midnight , you 'd do better to sign on . |
| 14 | ‘ After 10 years of employment legislation focused on what unions and their members may not do , the Government would do better to spell out the positive rights it believes trade union members are entitled to at the workplace . ’ |
| 15 | For the time being , however , investors might do better to clear out their portfolios than to add to them . |
| 16 | They would do better to rethink why they regulate banks at all . |
| 17 | The Front 's traditional candidate in the town told reporters that ‘ my friend Jean-Marie would do better to stand elsewhere ’ explaining that Niçois voters did not trust outsiders ! |
| 18 | You 'd do better to buy in from outside . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd do better to look where we 're going , ’ she snapped , ‘ rather than trying to work out my vital statistics ! ’ |
| 20 | Mr Gummer is inclined to give a snap reply to his critics , when he would do better to check carefully what they have said . |
| 21 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 22 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 23 | Curiously he comes out as another kind of social engineer who tries to show people that granted their fundamental motives ( to obtain a range of pleasures and avoid a range of pains ) they will do best to act rightly ( in terms of the general happiness ) . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd do best to meet away from the office , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Such opportunities are obviously present in Kenya and Zambia though they do not appear always to work out in practice , one reason in Kenya being that centre personnel are continually called on to perform routine professional jobs such as practical examinations for final year college students . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to go back to Bradford and ask the authority one or two questions . |
| 27 | He will do well to hang on . |
| 28 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |
| 29 | But those about to leave the damp and wintry British Isles for sunnier climes could do well to reflect on just two products from one of ICI 's most successful businesses which derive , ultimately , from salt deposits found beneath the Cheshire countryside and the technology used to extract useful materials from it . |
| 30 | That was plainly my bent and that I would do well to follow up this line of art rather than branch out into some other road of work . |