Example sentences of "she [vb past] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she 'd best meet you , would yer like to shake 'ands with 'er ? ’ |
| 2 | " If your mum 's after a washer , " he advised Kate , " she 'd best move in while the sale 's on . " |
| 3 | ‘ Not only that but , seeming very pleasant and eager to please , I thought , the woman I spoke with then suggested that rather than address my package to Cara in her professional name , just to make sure the package reached you , she 'd better give me your married name . ’ |
| 4 | And that people who told porkies went into the oven , and serve them right so she 'd better watch out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But now that she was here she supposed she 'd better do her best , although obviously it was not a matter to be rushed . |
| 7 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 8 | She tried undressing me again and I said no , she 'd better go , that I 'd changed my mind . |
| 9 | She 'd better go down quickly before he started to get suspicious . |
| 10 | Oh , she 'd better go and get it . |
| 11 | Or a wildcat either , though she thought she 'd better leave that one alone . |
| 12 | It 'ud be worse than useless telling them she thought the Cap'n 's slave had rights , needed care and attention and … and … she 'd better speak out before they 'd a chance to ask awkward questions ! |
| 13 | If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she 'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions . |
| 14 | Julie 's kids must be home , she 'd better rush … |
| 15 | Giving him a foolish little wave , she decided she 'd better return the chisel before she forgot all about it . |
| 16 | She 'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home . |
| 17 | She 'd better tell the police in Newmarket and also Nick Morley and his Jockey Club security people . |
| 18 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 19 | There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could . |
| 20 | She 'd better get used to it , Guy thought inflexibly . |
| 21 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 22 | She 'd better turn up soon , while there 's still time . |
| 23 | And while she 's on the job , she 'd better look round for a well-born filly for Timothy to marry . |
| 24 | But , surely , for him to say that if she did n't want to be seduced , she 'd better keep her distance had to mean that he really did desire her — did n't it ? |
| 25 | Enormously impressed by this friendly , helpful girl , who did n't seem in the least like most receptionists she encountered , Ellie slid back the registration card , accepted her plastic key , gave one of her funny little smiles , and decided that before going up to her room she 'd better try and find Donal . |
| 26 | In fact , if she wanted to hold down her gruelling job in a profession that was notorious for being both fraught with tension and also for the high casualty rate of mental burn-out , she 'd better try and get back to sleep — right now ! |
| 27 | And , if she did n't want to be a burnt-out case , too , she 'd better try and get some sleep , Laura told herself roughly as she slipped into bed and turned off the light . |
| 28 | Leith realised she 'd better concentrate hard when she heard Rosemary 's father on the other end . |
| 29 | Oh yes , she 'd better have eyes , he reflects , with a weary courtesy . |
| 30 | And she 'd better have a pretty convincing story as to what ‘ appened to my share of our money . ’ |