Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think you 'd better tell me exactly what 's been going on here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better tell me exactly what happened . ’ |
| 3 | You 'd better tell me where to hit it and how hard . ’ |
| 4 | You 'd better tell me where to hit it and how hard . ’ |
| 5 | Now if you want that drink you 'd better tell me where the fridge is so I can get some milk . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me why you 're here , Monsieur . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd better tell me how you met him and explain how we 're going to stay there with him without bloodshed . |
| 8 | ‘ Say , ’ he said , ‘ you 'd better tell me more precisely about what I am to wear to this ball . |
| 9 | But knowing how to make a fire might just save your life one day , so you 'd better watch me carefully in case you have to do this yourself . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd better count me out . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better let me down , Frank lad , ’ Jamie said , nudging me hard . |
| 12 | ‘ You 'd better fill me in on the details , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I think perhaps you 'd better fill me in on just exactly what 's been happening . ’ |
| 14 | I thought you were gon na go and tell him that he 'd better see me today . |
| 15 | You 'd best put me down if you know what 's good for you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I am not concerned about Moore because he did not give me too many problems . |
| 17 | Though he did not make me as starry-eyed as Daisy Yates , he was the best-looking man of any age I had ever seen , and I adored his old-fashioned manners . |
| 18 | She was astounded , and did not make me much wiser . ’ |
| 19 | The Minister did not answer me earlier when I tried to raise a point about the period of between six and 16 months . |
| 20 | At the rime his Jewish appearance did not strike me as peculiar because I had not yet got used to the idea of people thinking racially , but I learnt later that he was half Jewish and that he did this job to keep his Jewish wife out of trouble . |
| 21 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 22 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 23 | My uncle told me you were beautiful , but he did not tell me how beautiful . ’ |
| 24 | If it makes you feel any happier , I will tell you that it did not cost me as much as a bouquet of flowers would have done . |
| 25 | Although the landscape did not disappoint me nearly as severely as it did Johnson — subsequent farmers have grown many trees , and in the distance a great house still touches the sky — Monboddo may no longer be considered a classical Scottish fortified house . |
| 26 | Leaving behind hi-tech hospitals and computerized records did not bother me so much as leaving behind certain hard-won changes in birth procedures . |
| 27 | But this did not satisfy me either , so I ended up in Eritrea , having passed through Keren , Agordat , and Asmara . |
| 28 | They did not threaten me personally , but they made it clear that they could kill us all . |
| 29 | At least , I did not catch him whispering to any of the other people going in and out of the place , and he did not point me out to anyone at any time . |
| 30 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |