Example sentences of "well [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 2 | No one was more eager for life , and none better equipped to live it fully . |
| 3 | He then has more chance of meeting females and is better equipped to overpower them in mating fights . |
| 4 | This rule adds a consideration to those already discussed as being relevant to the scope of Ord. 53 , namely whether the High Court ( which hears AJRs ) or the alternative forum is more expert in dealing with the type of issue in question or better equipped to resolve it . |
| 5 | His 1541 parliament issued a string of acts seeking to underwrite the authority of the pope ( despite his own highly cavalier and damaging treatment of the papacy ) , to insist on greater respect and reverence for the sacraments , for the Virgin and saints , and for statues and images , and to reform ‘ kirks and kirkmen ’ so that divine service might be properly held , and churchmen better equipped to hold it . |
| 6 | When the next deaf mother-to-be booked , she was met by a team of three midwives who felt better equipped to help her . |
| 7 | With earlier periods evidence will inevitably become more scanty and more difficult in nature , but pupils will be better equipped to handle it with their experience of using evidence . |
| 8 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 9 | Then you 'd better decide to stamp mine while you 're on with it ! ’ |
| 10 | I know he 'd better stop scraping them whatever he 's doing . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |
| 12 | Those that could moved away , and those that were confident that the local authority would offer them something better refused to accept them . |
| 13 | ‘ I think we 'd better try to get it home , Mrs Lomax , ’ said Tina . |
| 14 | Better try putting it another way round . |
| 15 | As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ What better note to end it on than to win in a team situation and when you are playing for your country ? |
| 17 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 18 | I decided I 'd better go to stop him going on about it . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd better go get him before he dies . ’ |
| 20 | Better leave showing me all the good reasons for hanging you out of hand . |
| 21 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 22 | What better place to release them than their own territory ? |
| 23 | I 'd better start building you an alibi around Washington . |
| 24 | Not only does it set you free to live in the present but you had better start enjoying it , because — at the age of 40 or 50 or whatever — this is it , the future has arrived ! |
| 25 | ‘ And you better start calling me Mum , ’ said Gloria . |
| 26 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 27 | I could see his friends grinning among themselves ; probably there were more who had better cause to remember me . |
| 28 | That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession . |
| 29 | Third , the ground must be well drained to prevent it being poached by the animals . |
| 30 | We think that the courts of Scotland are well placed to judge them . |