Example sentences of "[vb infin] well [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | Dummett , architect of anti-realism as successor to verificationism , offers the most introductory account I know in Dummett ( 1978 , ch. 10 ) but if you are new to this area you would do better to wait until you have read ch. 9 of the present book before attempting it . |
2 | But should n't I do better work if I were n't driven from pillar to post to supplement my salary ? |
3 | PROFESSOR GEORGE Teeling-Smith has provided the nation with a grim warning , and one we should do well to heed before we are all poisoned to death . |
4 | Holidaymakers contemplating taking their diesel estate cars to the Dordogne or Brittany this summer would do well to wait until they drive off the cross-Channel ferry before topping up the tank . |
5 | " Policemen , " once wrote the author Michael Gilbert , whose police procedurals you would do well to read as well as his other crime stories , " did not catch murderers by taking thought . |
6 | If somebody told you some nigger boxer from Loovul , Kentucky would become better known than Jesus Christ , you 'd tell ‘ em , ‘ You crazy . ’ |