Example sentences of "well [adv] [vb infin] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Louie grins and says : ‘ He is welcome to drink here but he 'd better not choose the chair with its back to the door . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd better not mention the Bank 's name , just in case they do n't like it . |
| 3 | What the obstetrician was calling ‘ a birth you 'd better not tell the Guardian about ’ . |
| 4 | That 's why I do n't want I 'd better not fold the paper-until I 've worked out my ideas a bit more . ’ |
| 5 | They were laughing again when he said , ‘ Well , I 'd better not take the shag . |
| 6 | Emil , laying tablecloths , said that wine alone was included in the fare , all other cocktails having to be paid for , and perhaps I 'd better just serve the wine ; he and Oliver and Cathy would do the rest . |
| 7 | On temporarily sober reflection , I think I 'd better just stay the way I am , and settle for the occasional bursts of adulation down the pub . |
| 8 | You may as well just put the record on . |
| 9 | It 's all a far cry from a year ago when after sitting in beside Fisher on a pre-Donegal test day , he suggested he might as well not start the rally . |
| 10 | I might as well not take the trouble of calling . ’ |
| 11 | The risk in doing so would be that new patients might well not see the need to do so and might feel that this would be an inappropriate intrusion into the realm of individual freedom of choice in their personal lives and , further , that life might not be much fun in the straitjacket of abstinence from all these substances as well as from their prime drugs of choice . |
| 12 | Within departments , career bureaucrats exercise great influence and these men and women may well not share the partisan or policy preferences of their supposed political masters . |
| 13 | I do think the discussion so far and the contribution from Mr and Mr is unfairly er at this stage erm prejudicing a proper assessment of er er er a for a new settlement all the way round Greater York including the Southwest and I return to a comment I made before the break , that dualling for example of the outer bypass of the York ring road which is programmed and is , will dramatically change may well dramatically change the perception erm erm of people to the to the west of the Greater York area in respect of the area to the north east . |
| 14 | By the time you add a three-way catalytic converter there 's not much difference in the cost of making petrol and diesel engines ; take into account the lower warranty claims on diesels , and they may well actually cost the manufacturer less . |
| 15 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |