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 | This is a policy of indemnity and we do not pay damages for such items . |
| 17 | The banks are businesses too and we do not want to see them closed down . ’ |
| 18 | My point is a very short one , I I simply need to put it on the record that it is erm our position that the panel should distribute the er ove York overspill , if I can call it that , as well , that the panel should address the issue of distribution , because our fear is th is th is is is the Selby problem , that Selby are embarked upon a clear strategy of er substantial growth , and we do not want to see er the Greater York overspill being unduly er dir funnelled channelled in that direction . |
| 19 | Doubtless there will be no thanks for that and we do not expect any . |
| 20 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 21 | It is clear from our analysis in the previous section that we do not expect the strange invariant set produced at r 13.926 to be stable and we do not expect it to show up in numerical simulations ; the behaviour described in ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) above ( r } 13.926 ) can not be predicted from the purely local analysis . |
| 22 | It is an internal review , and we do not intend to publish it . |
| 23 | It has been the long-standing practice under Governments of both parties not to comment on operational matters , and we do not intend to depart from that precedent . |
| 24 | Lord Lane CJ added : [ o ] ne hesitates to suggest that different legal considerations might apply according to whether the proceedings are taking place in the civil rather than the criminal courts and we do not do so . |
| 25 | We do not preach war and bloodshed to the lads , and we do not favour military drill for them . ’ |
| 26 | But the ear bones of toothed whales are heavy and quite rudimentary , and we do not think that they are very important in transmitting received ultrasounds . |
| 27 | Whilst many of the questions Professor Buckley will address remain to be answered , he suspects he already knows the causes of some of Britain 's marketing problems abroad : ‘ Basically we do not try hard enough , we do not invest enough and we do not choose our markets selectively enough . |
| 28 | ‘ We are all the guests of your government , gracious madam , ’ Speich said , ‘ and we do not forget that fact . ’ |
| 29 | A full factor group analysis of the motions of the entire cell is required to account for these , and we do not go into this process here . |
| 30 | We are already many here and we do not need you . ’ |