Example sentences of "and we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we had best get our fences in order , you and I. ’ |
| 2 | But by doing this we have changed the experiment and we had better check whether the result has also altered . |
| 3 | And we had better do it quickly , because the trees and clumps are rapidly disappearing through the ravages of storms and neglect . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , when the Report was published , the Federation 's leaders were far from satisfied : ‘ For all practical purposes , the Beveridge Report is useless … and we had better ignore it entirely , concentrating on action which will secure our just rights — AND NOW — not at some vague future time . ’ |
| 5 | Because they believed — and we had better believe it also — that if they could make individuals conscious only of the need for personal gratification , they would have neither desire nor energy to combine and work for the downfall of the enemy . |
| 6 | We have to understand that it is going to cost many millions of pounds throughout industry in Scotland and we had better get it right . ’ |
| 7 | TIME FOR A BIT OF FUN , and we 'd better involve the whole band in this one . |
| 8 | And we 'd better clear all Maternity calls through here as well . |
| 9 | ‘ And we 'd better make sure that it does n't , ’ said Caspar , moving back to prop the door open with a stone . |
| 10 | And we 'd better go back now . |
| 11 | I told them there was nothing much more we could usefully do there and we 'd better leave before we were ejected . |
| 12 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yeah , cos we 've got to do your inhaler as well and we 'd better wipe that all that muck off your face , all that tomato sauce |
| 15 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 16 | But certainly , equal opportunities as as a part of the integral working of N C V O and we do regularly review , how we , as an organisation , are meeting our equal opportunities requirements across the board , that 's race , sex , disability , er , in involving the the staff who are at lower levels and so on . |
| 17 | should er and we do already confess the name do n't we ? |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ said Helen , ‘ I do know a girl who works in the outer office there , and we do sometimes meet up for lunch and I could try to put her on to it … |
| 19 | I mean we we spend all our life at work , then go home and we do more work . |
| 20 | Er , we call on Labour Mem Members of Parliament to give their support in each of these areas mentioned , and we do constantly have a dialogue and provide what is the union line in terms of erm these particular er issues . |
| 21 | When we say when we say that that we stage door club is closed it closed in the place it 's not open every evening but we do actually let it out we let it out to companies and whatever conference or companies who want a facility or meeting place something we do actually market that and we do actually ask people if they want to use it and in fact it has been taken up there . |
| 22 | And getting them to work was a constant problem and collecting the fines , and we do actually know about this . |
| 23 | And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting . |
| 24 | The strength and nature of these traditions has been brilliantly analysed elsewhere and we need only remind ourselves here of their importance and their diversity . |
| 25 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 26 | ‘ The market we operate in has been expanding despite the trials and tribulations of the retail recession and we need more space , ’ he said . |