Example sentences of "thought [pers pn] [verb] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 2 | That 's right , yeah , so I thought I 'd best get it |
| 3 | I thought I 'd better get it sorted out before I died . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So I thought I 'd better get some petrol in case Mr Marius Steen did come up to town over the weekend . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I thought I 'd better get in here first before Mr , and er Michael start hurling pieces of coal at each other . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well we thought we 'd better get looking . |
| 12 | I thought we 'd better get out the way there ! |
| 13 | Jarvis thought he had better get on with it himself because anyone Tina found would very likely default on the rent . |