Example sentences of "well [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You had better come up to Lady Merchiston , ’ Theda said , leading the way to the stairs .
2 Look , when you 've finished eating I think you 'd better come up to cabin 10 and get it sorted out .
3 And he denied a suggestion that the health promotion role could be better carried out at district health authority level because of the need to take an overall view of priorities .
4 He had better catch up on Elinor 's latest batch of instructions .
5 Some instant coffees are associated with problems similar to wheat-sensitivity in a number of patients and are better avoided along with wheat .
6 ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’
7 We turn up to funerals in everyday clothes , we refuse to let people send flowers so there is no opportunity for a communal expression of feeling , we are reluctant to take more than one day off work on the grounds that we 're better getting on with life as if weeping and mourning had no part in real life .
8 It was n't just Sunil who had convinced me that the rest of the week would be better spent out of town .
9 ‘ I think I 'd better go on to Granny Fordham 's .
10 And as for now , you 'd better go back with Fiona .
11 Well er watch how you go you 'd better go back to bed now I suppose .
12 " Better go back to Nildro-hain .
13 Ooh , I 'd better go back to work had n't I ?
14 I 'd better go down to Episkopi .
15 Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer .
16 Few organisations , though , are better wired in to City Hall than the municipal labour unions .
17 Other tales in The Silmarillion are better worked up into narrative , and yet seem to spring likewise from single scenes , single outcries .
18 I 'd better live up to tradition and carry you over the threshold ! ’
19 ‘ We 'd better get on to Chiguana , ’ Mother said , coming up to me , panting .
20 ‘ Anyway , I 'd better get off to bed .
21 ‘ You 'd better get back on duty , Nurse , and do try not to be so impulsive .
22 Yes , I better nip down to B & Q.
23 You better fly back via Canada and go in on your Leavy ID . ’
24 The hon. Gentleman would do well to go back to Bradford and ask the authority one or two questions .
25 These functions have been well carried out by Baedeker guides since the foundation of the German firm in the first part of the nineteenth century .
26 If the team becomes too large then in practice it could well break down into sub-teams and not be as effective as intended .
27 Course winner CREEAGER , in good form on the Flat in the spring , is well handicapped back over hurdles and , at the 25-1 with Hills and Ladbrokes , makes plenty of each-way appeal .
28 The significance of this fact was well drawn out by Louis Hartz in his incisive work on the Lockean basis of American society .
29 But they 're usually too well locked in at night .
30 When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home .
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