Example sentences of "well [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better just argue her into going back where she belonged . |
| 2 | I figure I better just keep it coming , anything I could think of . |
| 3 | Probably better just to take them home , and look at them rather than compile them now . |
| 4 | Better just to leave them |
| 5 | Well , better just ask us . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , hell , lady , if that 's your attitude , perhaps you 'd better just sew it up , sister , cause there ai n't no better stud bull than Curtius Kenne in the whole territory . ’ |
| 7 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 8 | ‘ I said to your mother , ‘ I 'd better just ring him and find out how he 's getting on . ’ ’ |
| 9 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |
| 10 | Better still change it for a modern one : we 're to replace all open flued water heaters , and because of this , British Gas are giving terrific trade-in allowances , so check them out ! |
| 11 | And those bits again , either tuck them in out of the way or better still fold them over and put a big plaster over the top to get them right out the way so no ends are left dangling , remember for most people you 're doing this for they 'll probably be returning to their place of work , okay , so they need to be safe to return to work , everybody okay on that lot ? |
| 12 | But if we are going to accuse them of this then we had better also accuse them of inventing the doctrine of the Trinity , for although the New Testament provides evidence for such a cardinal Christian belief it does not set it out in a clear or distinct fashion . |
| 13 | No , better far sit it out here and shame the devil . |
| 14 | Better far to confront them all , and let them make of it what they would . |
| 15 | Better surely to embrace it in the company of those one has loved , and as one slips away , to know from their tears how much they have loved one too . |
| 16 | I cou , I would of said well right tell them |
| 17 | Mm well so do we . |
| 18 | Local negotiators like me take a lot of stick and I 'm just gon na pass that stick straight on to you , because my members tell me all the time , I pay one thirty five a week , well so do I . |
| 19 | Well so do I , I wear it for |
| 20 | Well so do I , I need a lot of money , a lot a lot of money |
| 21 | somebody else up you 've got a massive accent , but then turns round and says , Well so have you . |
| 22 | Well so have you then ! |
| 23 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 24 | ‘ Well so did I ! ’ |
| 25 | Well so did I ! |
| 26 | Well better make it a four then . |
| 27 | ah , well better take them back after a while then |
| 28 | You 'd have well basically timesed it by three . |
| 29 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 30 | Above all he knew little more about Matthew Glynn than might reasonably appear in his obituary , but he needed to know the man well enough to see him going about his daily life against the background of his home and shop and in the context of his family , friends , and acquaintances . |