Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | group you did n't , if you 'd said no there , I just threw it down and said well , you 'd better think of another one . |
| 2 | But I do n't think I 'd better think about that . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we 'd better look into this a little more closely , do n't you ? |
| 4 | Talking of which , I 'd better look into these two queries before I do anything else . ’ |
| 5 | Now you can cross Snow White off and all we 've got left to find is witch , oh , there it is , right go from the W , W , W , from the W , right now come down , oh I 'd better help with this one because it 's diagonal , I T C |
| 6 | We 'd better win with that . |
| 7 | if they ca n't , we 'd better enquire about that I wonder how little went on with his knee ? |
| 8 | The debate over the Aggravating Vehicle-Taking Bill is different , not only because the Bill presumes a defendant responsible for occurrences if he can not disprove mere presence , but also because of the reasons which the Minister of State did eventually offer for this legislative formulation . |
| 9 | For many years the station scientists did little research on these introduced species , probably because no one could foresee the possibility of eradicating them . |
| 10 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |
| 11 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 12 | Adam did not want at this point to speculate , it made hi– feel sick . |
| 13 | The people of Ely ‘ have but a turfy scent and fenny posture about them , which smell I did not relish at all with any content ’ . |
| 14 | There was a moment , God 's truth , she would not forget it , when the man with the gun seemed to smile at her , God 's truth and she did not trifle with that . |
| 15 | WIMBLEDON star Jeremy Bates finally found time to wed his childhood sweetheart yesterday — because it did not clash with any tennis dates . |
| 16 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |
| 17 | The Greeks did not go beyond that minimum of attention which their position demanded . |
| 18 | Worrell did not go on that tour , but when West Indies went to England in 1957 under Goddard he was annoyed that the vice-captaincy went to Clyde Walcott ; Worrell and Walcott , while friends , were never all that close , in fact , whereas Worrell and Weekes were . |
| 19 | One study showed that about half of teenage mothers did not go to the antenatal clinic until the third or fourth month , almost one in five had waited until the fifth month of pregnancy , and a few did not go at all . |
| 20 | ‘ We did not go into that lightly , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 21 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 22 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 23 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but obviously I am interested in signing him . |
| 24 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but I am interested in signing him . ’ |
| 25 | He then reminisced about a house-party at which someone had suggested that Mr Eliot ( who did not go to many such parties ) should be invited to read some of his poems . |
| 26 | Although the three individual defendants had either signed or had been made aware of undertakings of confidentiality when they entered the employment of the plaintiff , counsel on behalf of the plaintiffs did not rely upon such undertakings before the judge but relied upon general implied principles of law in this area . |
| 27 | In Wings v. Ellis the defendant mysteriously did not rely upon any such defence . |
| 28 | Basil did not preach on such matters ; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate . |
| 29 | Habershon 's scheme was only eleventh on Angell and Pownall 's and it did not appear at all on Burn s , g while Rochead and Dwyer 's schemes were both rejected by Angell and Pownall for slightly exceeding the stipulated site . |
| 30 | George Neilson in Scotland [ q.v. ] , and Goddard Orpen in Ireland , she was to prove in a stream of articles and books that motte and bailey castles did not appear in these isles until after the Norman invasion . |