Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd better go and see Fräulein Müller again . ’
2 " Well , I suppose we 'd better go and see the Chief Rabbit and you can tell him about it .
3 He muttered , ‘ We 'd better go and fetch Emmie . ’
4 We 'd better go and see the doctor , ’ he said heavily , taking her hand and leading her back down the corridor .
5 We 'd better go and have a word with Mum and Dad . ’
6 And I suppose we 'd better go and asphyxiate ourselves up at the sulphur springs .
7 Who 's putting their coats on ? oh they 've gone to the toilet what you doing ? , looking at your pretty face mm we 'd better go and see what your brothers are doing
8 Cor Sue if ever you get any tickets to see them , we 'd better go and see them .
9 Yeah alright we 'd better go and put the flowers in because I put a lot of the plants out this mo today .
10 I told them there was nothing much more we could usefully do there and we 'd better leave before we were ejected .
11 We 'd better do as she says or we 'll not get a cup o' tea .
12 We 'd better disappear before he comes to collect , ’ Nails said .
13 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
14 oh that 's what I mean , erm , well listen we 'd better try and just , practice somehow and see erm
15 and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and
16 ‘ Yes , we fought we 'd better see if 'e 'd pinched anyfing , ’ said Linda .
17 ‘ Lukey , ’ Sonny whispered nervously , ‘ mebbe we 'd better wait and let Da deal with this . ’
18 we did so hope that we 'd both pass , you see , because , you know , been terrible
19 We did originally conclude that the MiG 25 posed no real threat to our air defences , but it would appear there have been some new developments .
20 We do strongly recommend that you continue to weigh yourself regularly .
21 Whereas it hath been represented to us , upon the oaths of several of our trusty and well-beloved booksellers , that certain journeyman taylors , shoemakers , barbers , Spitaldfields-weavers [ sic ] , and other handicraftsmen , and that certain apprentices , shopmen , &c. have assembled in certain clubs , called Spouting-clubs , and , having there intoxicated themselves with porter and poetry , have presumed to make rhymes , and discharge them on the Public , under the title of ‘ Squires and Honourables , &c. &c. to the great annoyance of said Public , and of us , the said Reviewers ; WE do hereby ordain and decree that … [ everyone ] so offending in future , shall , for every such first offence , be chained to the compter , for a space , not exceeding twelve , nor less than six days ; and … for every such second offence , be not only chained to the compter for the said space of time ( more or less ) but be obliged to wear bob-wigs , and flapped hats without girdle or buckle , for the space of six months .
22 We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time .
23 One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers .
24 We do indeed manipulate and control our surroundings , in so far as we can , by way of things as causal rather than as effects .
25 Given that we do indeed believe that the flipping and the starting each occurred , it is also true , and would certainly be more natural to say , that since the wipers started to work , the switch was flipped .
26 We do truly believe that Hess wants to go to Britain .
27 I did not want to go , but Dana said we had better do as they asked .
28 But by doing this we have changed the experiment and we had better check whether the result has also altered .
29 I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches .
30 For evidently we need both reflexive and non-reflexive polyadic predicates , as well as monadic predicates , if we are to be able to describe at all adequately the world around us .
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