Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] well [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might well never find out where it was , but it would certainly contain some pupils whom the teacher had chosen because she thought they were bright and co-operative and others would almost certainly have been excluded because of their uncooperativeness or lower intelligence . |
| 2 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 3 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 4 | ‘ I said to your mother , ‘ I 'd better just ring him and find out how he 's getting on . ’ ’ |
| 5 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm fine , ’ said Henry , ‘ but this means I 'd better just pop out for a second . ’ |
| 7 | " I 'd better just have £1,000 worth initially . |
| 8 | I 'd better just have your address and National Health Number for the records . ’ |
| 9 | And I I would simply draw attention to paragraph two of that report er in the second last sentence in the paragraph it says Well I 'd better actually read the er the whole paragraph . |
| 10 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |
| 11 | Using a variation ( possessive it 's ) means that you are asserting your right to your own language ; but you may well also alienate your reader , who might decide that , at least in her or his view , " you ca n't write properly " . |
| 12 | She might have one of her periods you 'd better fucking go and sort her out . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if you did n't put it under my door yourself , maybe you 'd better just check with Reception downstairs . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In that case , perhaps you 'd better just pay off your debt to me and find yourself a job as a salesgirl in some shop . |
| 15 | Oh look , in fact you 'd better just take whatever you can get . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Well , hell , lady , if that 's your attitude , perhaps you 'd better just sew it up , sister , cause there ai n't no better stud bull than Curtius Kenne in the whole territory . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we 'd better just have a quiet word together before we go down and see the kids on the beach , ’ Ben was saying as Carole bustled back into the room , carrying a tray laden with plates of cakes and biscuits . |
| 18 | If the plaintiff 's submissions of law are correct they may well never have to be resolved . |
| 19 | By the time you add a three-way catalytic converter there 's not much difference in the cost of making petrol and diesel engines ; take into account the lower warranty claims on diesels , and they may well actually cost the manufacturer less . |
| 20 | Their poor score will fail to recognise that they might well fully grasp the concepts behind the question — which is what they are being tested on . |
| 21 | This is primary evidence ( material produced in the past ) , though it may well also offer a particular interpretation of an event . |
| 22 | If military training can incorporate an element of preparation for the emotional experience associated with active service abroad which prevents even a small number of psychiatric casualties , it may well also help to maintain the morale of others and be cost-effective in these terms . |
| 23 | It may well then have to face the vested interest of different institutions and organizations and there may be difficulties defining where some provision could fit in . |
| 24 | The presence of the provision , however , suggests that kadis had in practice been making their way back into the medrese stream , though it may well never have been intended that they should do so . |
| 25 | Nevertheless he may well still have a remedy against the dealer . |
| 26 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |