Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you 'd rather stay here and read your riveting book . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I suppose we had better get on , although I 'd much rather stay here and hear what you 've been doing , and I would be interested , in spite of what you might think . ’ |
| 3 | Hamilton resolutely destroyed the patriotic myth that most Scots would kill to wear the navy jersey when he told the press , ‘ I 'd rather stay home and play golf . ’ |
| 4 | Halidon was no great mount , a mere five hundred feet high , but it was sufficiently steep on that west side , after the slow plodding through the bog , to greatly slow down and disperse the advance . |
| 5 | Alright , I think we 'd better give up and have some breakfast . |
| 6 | If it 's not the best skate mag on the shelf then we had better give up and take up flower pressing . |
| 7 | I was a witness and so on you see and down below and the sergeant said to me , the sergeant came up and said to me , you 'll have to be careful because he said that boy , he was sitting there with his mother , poor woman , all in black and er the em the boy 's employer had got a solicitor on his behalf , you see , and I said well I can only speak through and say what happened , that 's all I can do and er , so of course when I went into the witness box this man came and er asked me all sorts of questions . |
| 8 | No , we 'll have to have a look tomorrow they 'd better hurry up and eat though had n't they ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well Denis , you 'd better hurry up and say what you were going to say , ’ said Michael . |
| 10 | you 're not going without me I said you 'd better hurry up and get bloody dressed then had n't you ? |
| 11 | For years she could only look on and sympathise with Lady Spencer as the ‘ spiteful stepmother ’ stories about her grew unchecked . |
| 12 | The trouble was that she would never say , she would only look away and murmur vaguely , ‘ You decide … ’ |
| 13 | I 'd better return home and fetch some more for Ella . |
| 14 | You 'd better ride home and forget her ! ’ |
| 15 | I 'd thought he might suddenly take off and run , but he seemed glued to the bench . |
| 16 | It was fabulous because King Crimson had such a tremendous sound and such a tremendous image that for them to suddenly stand up and do a lot of Buddy Holly hits with Donovan singing vocals was really cute . |
| 17 | You 'd better go round and ask some of the other hunt subscribers . |
| 18 | I rejected the offer and said that , if these were the terms , Williams had better go ahead and sign Senna . |
| 19 | We 'd better go upstairs and have a look had n't we ? |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd better go upstairs and see her , Nahum . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better go up and see him — now . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'd better go up and see her . ’ |
| 23 | Better go up and see Raymond . |
| 24 | Arthur Conway took from his pocket a large silver cased watch , sprang the lid , looked at it , then said , ‘ You 'd better go up and have a bite while things are a bit slack . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd better go up and have a hot bath . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd better go up and take a look , ’ he mumbled again , but he did n't move . |
| 27 | You 'd better go back and uncouple the and split it again and set the buckeye . |
| 28 | ’ ‘ Well , you 'd better go back and have another one . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , it 's more than likely you 'll want to arrange for Doreen to take over from me , ’ she pointed out as this thought began to seep into her mind , then she hastened to add , ‘ And speaking of the office work , I 'd better go back and get on with the job . ’ |
| 30 | Someone had better go down and have a word … |