Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said Well I 'm sorry you 'd better refer to my solicitor who 's told me that you need a court order . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’ |
| 3 | You 'd better talk to them , make sure they 're ready . |
| 4 | Perhaps you 'd better talk to our Matron , Miss Vinall . |
| 5 | Ah , ah , I just thought I 'd better explain to everyone , sorry . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better explain to me what it is she does as a job . |
| 7 | Oh , and you 'd better apologise to her , as well as to father , for insulting her . |
| 8 | ‘ Nevertheless , if you have any respect for my blood-pressure , lady , I think you 'd better retire to your lonely bed , while I continue my journey to Wales . ’ |
| 9 | Finding that broking in political power was more fun than selling milk , Horsley self-importantly told Kinnock he 'd better stick to his socialist principles after being elected Prime Minister , or there 'd be trouble from NoS . |
| 10 | We can make fear choices , which lead us to cling to the past — ‘ I hate my job , but I wo n't find anything better , so I 'd better stick to it ’ , ‘ I always eat hamburger and chips on Thursdays ’ , ‘ I 'd like to know Chris better , but I 'm sure s/he wo n't be interested in me ’ — or growth choices , in which we reach for the future — ‘ I hate my job , so I 'll start applying for others , even though it feels scary ’ , ‘ Maybe I 'll try spaghetti bolognese tonight ’ , ‘ What have I got to lose ? |
| 11 | So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village . |
| 12 | ‘ Well — ’ She went to the fire and ground the kettle on top of the glowing tins , then added , ‘ As you 're takin' over , you 'd better see to it . ’ |
| 13 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 14 | I think you 'd better see to it . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 16 | " Do n't you dare ever speak to us . |
| 17 | Her reputation as a glutton meant that while she often visited the matron with digestive problems these escapades did little harm to her popularity . |
| 18 | Do much damage to yours ? |
| 19 | They kill a very high percentage of their catch immediately , fewer rabbits escape from them and , while killing the rabbit , they do less damage to it . |
| 20 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 21 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 22 | The inquest was told Sarah left her digs in early December but did not go to her home . |
| 23 | He did not go to anyone . |
| 24 | But I did not go to his church . |
| 25 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 26 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |
| 27 | The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives . |
| 28 | Everything was ‘ turgid ’ and he was ‘ smashed to fragments ’ by some events , but writer Peter Dobereiner sensed that Crawford sometimes did not relate to his and Peter Lewis 's scripts . |
| 29 | He did not cling to his rights ( Phil . |
| 30 | Besides , if she did not talk to him at all , ever , then she talked to nobody , unless you counted her communication with Aunt Margaret ; and her loneliness was unbearable . |