Example sentences of "'d [adv] [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any metal in what you 're making , ’ said Mr Walpit . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better not be using any wood in what you 're making , , said Mr Welt . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's probably just me — you 'll be alright ( you 'd better not be after I 've put up such a struggle ) . |
| 4 | anyway , so we could get erm he 'd better not be there . |
| 5 | Sandy said , ‘ We 'd better not be heading for your place , even if you 've been doing it up . |
| 6 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 7 | On second thoughts , though , I think you 'd better not be a chartered accountant . |
| 8 | Sometimes I stick to ‘ driver — ’ well , I have a cab ( though you 'd better not be talking to a real musher ) and a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better not be lying . ’ |
| 10 | All I can say is , I 'd better not be wrong . |
| 11 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 12 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 13 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 14 | They 'd still not been replaced . |
| 15 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 16 | She 'd very nearly been caught out . |
| 17 | I 'd never even been on a train until I was past thirty and if you recall that was no joy-ride , simply a mercy dash to get Renée out of one of her scrapes . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 19 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 20 | But since , technically , she 'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less . |
| 21 | I 'd never even been in a car until I was twenty … |
| 22 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |
| 23 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 24 | Loren was upstairs , engaged in that long getting-ready process that he 'd never quite been able to fathom . |
| 25 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 26 | She 'd never really been interested in boys , or going out much . |
| 27 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 28 | Erm because I 'd never actually been in the flats before . |