Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making two shots at it before he could manage the switch , he wondered if he 'd better not drink any more . |
| 2 | I 'd better not drink any more ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd better not waste any more time , ’ she added , pushing the door open and going through , finding herself at an entrance to the dock area that she had seen from Froebe 's office . |
| 4 | We 'd better not waste any time . |
| 5 | I thought , all right , I 'd better not do that again . |
| 6 | A blind person remarked : ‘ If someone said to me ‘ You 'd better not do this placement ’ then I 'd rather walk to Australia on my hands than admit that I could n't . ’ |
| 7 | My partner suggested perhaps we 'd better not do this again . |
| 8 | It 's got pockets , yes , you 'd better not open those actually . |
| 9 | And very … well , I 'd better not say any more about that . |
| 10 | However — ’ he grinned at the expression on her face ‘ — I 'd better not say any more . |
| 11 | you 'd better not have that had ya ? |
| 12 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 13 | I 'd better not use this felt tip |
| 14 | You 'd better not put any bum ones in . |
| 15 | They 'd better not get any on me after I 've done this , put it that way . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better not push this too far , ’ said Edward . |
| 17 | I 'd better not take any more at once in case they fall off . |
| 18 | Even those that tend not to do very well attract some kind of an advance . |
| 19 | So the new planners thought well why waste all this available space between the various shops ? |
| 20 | I do very much appreciate this invitation although , for another year I 'm afraid , I must tender my apologies . |
| 21 | And Fazal said : ‘ You had better not do that if the Mamur Zapt is about . ’ |
| 22 | Dorothy decided she had better not laugh this time , though she wanted to , so she said cautiously : ‘ I do n't know , Hank . ’ |
| 23 | It stated the soldier 's undying love for his wife but also made it plain that he realised that they could not live in harmony , so they had better not see each other . |
| 24 | What sometimes fails to strike the judicial mind is that the draftsman was in fact doing exactly what he was instructed to do and that his drafting does indeed truly reflect that elusive ‘ parliamentary intention ’ . |
| 25 | Since we are concerned with average or aggregate data in macroeconomics , we need no longer make any distinction between measured consumption and permanent consumption . |