Example sentences of "better [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you 'd better throw a blanket over your head , ’ he said quietly . |
| 2 | ‘ And … ’ the voice continued with studied casualness , ‘ perhaps you 'd better double the money … . ’ |
| 3 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 4 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if there 's no one you can call you 'd better stay the night . |
| 7 | Process rights can however , as we shall see , be fashioned in other ways which may be both better suited to the needs of particular areas , and ago better attain the instrumental and non-instrumental values which process rights are designed to serve . |
| 8 | Better make a start on shaving . |
| 9 | Then , ‘ Come on we 'd better make a start . |
| 10 | Perhaps she had better make a bolt for it . |
| 11 | Oh well , I suppose I had better make a start with the Christmas shopping . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better make a start . |
| 13 | 3 Better make a decision than none at all . |
| 14 | ‘ Better make a start . |
| 15 | So we 'd better make a note of that . |
| 16 | Then she added hastily , ‘ I 'd better make a start on fixing the table . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better make a million , then , ’ said Jessica . |
| 18 | But I had had quite er if you want funding erm there 's only so many people out there , you better make a success of what you 're doing . |
| 19 | Shirley 's sort of getting on to you a bit I think we 'd better make a move . |
| 20 | Oh yeah but in , better make a Stuart 's . |
| 21 | I suppose I had better make a move to get some clothes on you think ? |
| 22 | Well I think I 'd better make a |
| 23 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 24 | Er ooh better make a move . |
| 25 | Better make a start then . |
| 26 | I have met nobody that is wholly satisfied with the body God gave them — but this is the body you 've got so you 'd better make the best of it . |
| 27 | She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home . |
| 28 | When they had gone , Michael Swinton let a small silence fall and then he said , ‘ We had better make the lie a truth , I think . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , we 'd better make the most of it , then , had n't we ? ’ he said softly . |
| 30 | Apparently , that we only live once , that nothing lasts for ever , that the hours and days and years are rolling inexorably round , that soon we will all be in Hades with yesterday 's worthies , and nobody 's family connections or talent or good deserts will get them out : so we had better make the most of life while we have it . |