Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought I 'd better turn everything out , you see , and then this came up . |
| 32 | ‘ I thought I 'd better keep you up to date — you left here in such a rush , you did n't say whether you had any thoughts on the villa business … ’ |
| 33 | I thought I 'd better add a rider to that , it was easy to be male and misunderstood around here . |
| 34 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 35 | Thought I 'd better warn you so you can be prepared . |
| 36 | I thought I 'd just take them down to the tip , but when we had half a bucket full I thought I 'd better phone the police |
| 37 | I thought I 'd better get it sorted out before I died . ’ |
| 38 | Er I was still slobbing around in my dressing-gown and you know yesterday 's clothes and so I I I thought I 'd better get up and do stuff . |
| 39 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 40 | ‘ Well , film work 's very precarious , of course — so I thought I 'd better get a steady job for a bit , especially when my money ran out . ’ |
| 41 | I thought I 'd better get in here first before Mr , and er Michael start hurling pieces of coal at each other . |
| 42 | Edwin was a crafty old so-andso and he did n't like his children very much — not that I blame him — so I thought I 'd better get the beneficiaries together and explain . |
| 43 | ‘ We 've been tepid sponging and monitoring since he was admitted , but there does n't appear to be any improvement — in fact , I 'd say he 's marginally worse than he was an hour ago , so I thought I 'd better get you to take a look at him . ’ |
| 44 | They 're still a bit wobbly , you know , and when the bombing got rough I thought I 'd better find us all somewhere to go . |
| 45 | Well I No I thought I 'd better find it cos otherwise I 'd walk off without it and then you 'd get my pen , and I |
| 46 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 47 | She thought she 'd best meet you , would yer like to shake 'ands with 'er ? ’ |
| 48 | Or a wildcat either , though she thought she 'd better leave that one alone . |
| 49 | She thought she 'd better watch it , for if it took control , then no one would ever love her and she would be lonely all through her life . |
| 50 | When the flight to Nice was called , she informed a brisk blue-uniformed redhead that she was feeling ill and thought she 'd better cancel her ticket . |
| 51 | And knowing how close Mickey is to him , I thought we had better let him know . ’ |
| 52 | But at the moment he 's well he 's not come back to us with any answer from our offer at all so we 're we 're presuming that means no so we thought we 'd better start looking . |
| 53 | So when you showed us you did n't want to hear about your mother , we thought — well , we thought we 'd better go along with you . |
| 54 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 55 | Well we thought we 'd better get looking . |
| 56 | I thought we 'd better get out the way there ! |
| 57 | Yes , Lord Stradbroke went up there ; and they thought the pub had become unruly , so they thought they 'd better close it . |
| 58 | ‘ She thought they 'd better have something to drink so she got some sherry , then she was worried because she 's only got those little glasses you know , little tumblers , and she says they 're only for whisky . ’ |
| 59 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 60 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |