Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few folk went to his place before sunrise yesterday , just to let him know he had better have no hand in the lists . |
| 2 | He says he did well last this , now he wants to win . |
| 3 | " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . " |
| 4 | Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine . |
| 5 | I know he 'd better stop scraping them whatever he 's doing . |
| 6 | Otley then decided he had better take the venison back to Claro before the community constable went on his early morning rounds . |
| 7 | Greg , after a perfunctory tour round the makeshift gallery decided he 'd better slip off . |
| 8 | Maxim half turned away then decided he 'd better say his piece anyway . |
| 9 | The River Police Headquarters Building was not far from Southwark Bridge , and Redpath felt he 'd better call there to put his problem , before getting involved in something that might turn out not to belong to his division at all . |
| 10 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 11 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |
| 12 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 13 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 14 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |
| 15 | He did n't know what Gesner was up to but he thought he 'd better tell the Direktor . |
| 16 | I mean he does actually make er expose di differences between different areas where , where he says peasant associations er where the landlords are the worse they will suffer the worse punishment whereas |
| 17 | So I think he 'd better roll his sleeves even higher and start repairing the damage , plenty of it caused by his own hastiness . |
| 18 | After the third demonstration , Charles said he 'd better go , and Dottie , recognising that she 'd had all she was getting , took a sleeping pill and let him . |
| 19 | He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom . |
| 20 | If this stranger was who he claimed to be , he supposed he 'd better do as he was told . |
| 21 | He supposed he had better start reading for the Bar , quick and easy . |