Example sentences of "better [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then you 'd better throw a blanket over your head , ’ he said quietly . |
| 2 | If you want to include iron losses ( occurring in the magnetic core due to the periodically change flux ) as well , you should better consult a book having a bigger section on transformers . |
| 3 | ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’ |
| 4 | 3 Better make a decision than none at all . |
| 5 | But I had had quite er if you want funding erm there 's only so many people out there , you better make a success of what you 're doing . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had better make a bolt for it . |
| 7 | Shirley 's sort of getting on to you a bit I think we 'd better make a move . |
| 8 | I suppose I had better make a move to get some clothes on you think ? |
| 9 | Er ooh better make a move . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd better make a cup of coffee . |
| 11 | Better make a start on shaving . |
| 12 | Then , ‘ Come on we 'd better make a start . |
| 13 | Oh well , I suppose I had better make a start with the Christmas shopping . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose we 'd better make a start . |
| 15 | ‘ Better make a start . |
| 16 | Then she added hastily , ‘ I 'd better make a start on fixing the table . ’ |
| 17 | Better make a start then . |
| 18 | So we 'd better make a note of that . |
| 19 | Perhaps this is one experiment that had better remain a computer simulation , at least for now . |
| 20 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd better organize a couple of temps for us , ’ Georgina said . |
| 22 | I better do a check for gas here . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd better do a blood glucose straight away , ’ she said as soon as she was lying in bed , with the adjustable part tilted to a gentle angle . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd better do a report on that adhesive , ’ she said . |
| 25 | It brilliantly combines a legitimate trepidation about the Nazis with a certain ambivalence ( perhaps typical of those on the bourgeois Left in Britain at the time ) about the Russian bears who may or may not have been rescuing him , resolved in the end by the arrival of the charming governess — " better keep a hold on Nurse , just in case of something worse " ! |
| 26 | ‘ Normally I do n't , but jus ’ in case , I better keep a couple . ’ |
| 27 | Better keep a label on them or else ! |
| 28 | Thoo 'd better mek a start on yon ten acre field down by t'river-side . |
| 29 | Somebody better mek a U-turn |
| 30 | Somebody better mek a U-turn before de fire start burn . |