Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	‘ Perhaps I 'd better get in touch with him .
2	It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it .
3	I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body .
4	So I said well coming from Judith it would n't surprise me if it could bloody talk
5	So I sat there thinking about life , and when I listened again he was talking about orgasms . ’
6	We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it .
7	Suddenly she felt deeply irritated by his presence .
8	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 .
9	You with a mind full only of natural & unembarrassing thoughts , & of me , probably awoke early and remembered & rejoiced ; perhaps you had even prepared for it , & went happy walks , singing , garlanded .
10	‘ Then perhaps you had better attend to the mending of his soul .
11	‘ Well , perhaps you 'd better talk to them about that . ’
12	Perhaps you 'd better talk to our Matron , Miss Vinall .
13	‘ Perhaps you 'd better get over there , ’ she conceded .
14	His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of .
15	So you 'd better see to it that Luke and Sonny do n't go often to the village .
16	She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer .
17	He asked if he could also have bonus money for the people below who had also contributed to his efforts .
18	There is every reason to suppose that changes such as those in Fig. 24.4 are intrinsic to the dynamics , not something that could be eliminated if only one had better control of the apparatus .
19	Perhaps we had better stick to shooting fish in a barrel ; the odds are a shade more even .
20	At in we 'd just turned round the corner and it conked out .
21	The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing .
22	Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted .
23	And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another .
24	Only he had never minded about Kathleen , the youngest of them .
25	While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit .
26	So he sat there thinking about life and things ;
27	Somehow she 'd still hoped against hope that Ace might have come to her after all .
28	His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction .
29	Meanwhile he continued also to operate as a moneylender , advancing large sums on bond during these same decades , and was appointed to a royal commission on the cloth trade in the late 1630s .
30	From these pits such an appalling stench was given off that scarcely anyone dared even to walk beside the churchyards . ’

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