Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You 'd better collect a few more like that : then you can make a notice board and frighten Fiver . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better make a million , then , ’ said Jessica . |
| 3 | Well they 'd better do a wee test then . |
| 4 | Perhaps , when he 'd dropped her , he 'd better give a little thought to damage limitation and the covering of his tracks . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'd better break a few rules . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah you 'd better have a mobile unit |
| 7 | He 'd better have a good reason for ringing me up on Christmas Day ! |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 9 | The headmaster said , ‘ I think we 'd better have a little talk . |
| 10 | ‘ Now we 'd better have a formal interview with you , which I will allege took place in your flat . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd better have a full . |
| 12 | I was n't actually gon na say anything but I 'd better say a little bit . |
| 13 | But if anyone should try to get the better of Jimmy Dick , they 'd better take a lengthy piece of cutlery with them . |
| 14 | You 'd better get a bigger one , hundred and sixty one . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , film work 's very precarious , of course — so I thought I 'd better get a steady job for a bit , especially when my money ran out . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Aye , Ah 'd best have a wee talk with her myself . ’ |
| 17 | There was some nervousness that perhaps modular courses did not deliver a satisfactory educational experience from the viewpoint of the student . |
| 18 | In reality , from the study of the videotapes made of the language performance of most of the 150 people who took part , the language level actually being achieved did not bear a great similarity to the BSL as used by deaf people . |
| 19 | However , a report prepared over five years by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ) , released in August , concluded that the USA did not bear a disproportionate share of the NATO burden . |
| 20 | Although the House of Lords did not give a concluded opinion , the inclination of the judgments was that the court could not use the test to limit a plaintiff to a proportion of his losses . |
| 21 | Although he did not give a new date for the elections , Traore stressed that the postponement would not affect the timetable for the transition period which had been extended in December [ see p. 38563 ] . |
| 22 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 23 | During his opening speech , I asked the Secretary of State a question to which he did not give a full or satisfactory answer — why had not the Government sought to introduce those measures before they privatised monopolies , rather than wait until the customers had suffered the consequences of several years of high prices and not necessarily improved services ? |
| 24 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 25 | It said that PW 's independence was compromised by BCCI loans to partnerships in Panama and Barbados , and that from 1987 onwards the firm had ‘ ample reason ’ to believe that BCCI 's accounts did not give a true and fair view of its financial situation . |
| 26 | The reader should realize that Einstein did not give a rigorous mathematical proof of GR and neither has anyone else . |
| 27 | Two-thirds of part-time workers surveyed in 1990 did not want a full-time job ( Dept. of Employment 1991 ) . |
| 28 | City sources indicated they did not want a wide-ranging Budget that would tackle much-needed reforms such as mortgage tax relief and that it would be better for the Chancellor to do as little as possible . |
| 29 | Lord John Russell , who at that time was not a member of Palmerston 's Government , said that he had heard that Panmure did not want a new building for the War Department , and he hoped that : |
| 30 | The SEA was a compromise between those countries such as France and Germany who wanted a new Treaty on European Union , and the UK and Denmark who did not want a new Treaty , but simply the implementation of the White Paper in order to create an SEM . |