Example sentences of "i had well " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 2 | Duncan looked at his wrist watch , and rising to his feet said , ‘ I had better be going now , Piper . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , if everyone is all right , I think I had better go into the office today . |
| 4 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 5 | Perhaps I had better do it now . ’ |
| 6 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I had better recapitulate for you . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I think I had better go home . |
| 10 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 11 | I could have got away with murder that Saturday night , although under the present circumstances I had better add that I made no attempt to do so . |
| 12 | Cichlasomaniacs are all too familiar with the current confused taxonomy of their favourites , but for the uninitiated I had better explain the basic situation — even if you find taxonomy boring you may find this helpful in understanding the names currently applied to these fish . |
| 13 | I mean , I 've always felt that I had better do a helluva lot of acting . |
| 14 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 15 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 16 | It was n't so much the ageing process itself that sent my spirits plummeting — although greying hair and wrinkles were n't exactly adding to my self-esteem — as the realisation that time is marching on and I had better not waste a moment of it . |
| 17 | Oh well , I suppose I had better make a start with the Christmas shopping . |
| 18 | Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all . |
| 19 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 20 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 21 | However , I 'm afraid Colin James got his wires crossed a bit regarding our catering vehicle , so perhaps I had better set the record straight . |
| 22 | At this point I had better cover some of the regulations regarding the transport of live fish around the world . |
| 23 | Finally , before anyone reminds me that there is a further important predatory invertebrate group , the Echinoderms , I had better add a few lines . |
| 24 | But I was told that since I was so keen to have these things I had better think about how we would use them when the time came . |
| 25 | The you walk down one street , and you say , ‘ Well I had better get back to my bearings , or I shall lose myself and you go back to the town hall . |
| 26 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
| 27 | The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about . |
| 28 | We do not want to lose any explorers of the quantum world on the way so I think I had better issue a survival kit before we start . |
| 29 | Or perhaps I had better have another brandy first . ’ |
| 30 | I had better as things are have learned to wash , scour , brew and bake . |