Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 2 | You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto ! |
| 3 | Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter . |
| 4 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 5 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 6 | She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did ! |
| 7 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd better go through to the sports field , ’ said Robert . |
| 10 | If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’ |
| 11 | We 'd better go back to the burrow . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car . |
| 14 | If you ca n't control your temper you 'd better go down to the canteen and help yourself to a drink . |
| 15 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd better go down to the stream and hide in the bushes , ’ said Geoffrey . |
| 17 | Miss Honey said to the class , ‘ I think you 'd all better go out to the playground and amuse yourselves until the next lesson . ’ |
| 18 | We 'll all go in to the one . |
| 19 | Lancashire Region to second and colleagues if , if all the other movers and seconders and the C E C speaker would all come down to the front it would help us enormously with time Yorkshire Region to move . |
| 20 | If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on . |
| 21 | We said , ‘ We 'd better get back to the hotel and try to figure out this country in the morning . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Doctor . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd better get back to the Operations Room . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You … you 'd better get back to the restaurant … |
| 28 | A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough . |
| 29 | Better come over to the window . ’ |
| 30 | You 'd both better come back to the farmhouse , and Mrs. Olinton will help you to clean yourselves and give you some tea . |