Example sentences of "have better " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the administration now seeks a coherent shopping-list of objectives , it has better find a way of accounting for these hidden benefits . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll warn Mrs Pettifer they 're on their way , ’ said the sergeant , ‘ Then you 'd better keep an eye on the old lady and I 'll watch the froggie geezer . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah well , in that case , I 'd better let you know that I 've asked Paul Spence to do some of the revision classes for your part of the course . ’ |
| 4 | Look , I 've no money for a hotel so I 'd better make my own arrangements for tonight . |
| 5 | I think we 'd better have a talk . |
| 6 | I 'd better get on with my telephoning . |
| 7 | Do n't you think you 'd better see the body buried before you do anything else ? |
| 8 | I 'd better sleep . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd better jump on her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers . |
| 11 | — Yes … well , I 'd better be off , had n't I ? — Yes . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd better go and buy himself a new bike , that 's always a good way to break bits of the human body . |
| 13 | ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said . |
| 14 | ‘ I figured I 'd better get started before I ended up like Brahms or something , ’ he deadpans in a voice that betrays his Welsh origins ( he was born in 1942 in Garnant ) rather than the last 25 years living in New York . |
| 15 | One Sunday at the Trocadero the chief circle usher said to me , ‘ I think you 'd better come up to the back circle , Gents , we 've got a bloke behaving obscenely . ’ |
| 16 | Some time later a man came along the path and stopped to ask me if I was all right , I told him yes and to please go away , which he did but I thought he 'll go to fetch help so I 'd better do it now . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better put on one of my tracksuits , we 're not meant to go up to your room until they 've sent someone to inspect it or something , ’ she called on her way to the kitchen . |
| 18 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd better get it sorted out before I died . ’ |
| 20 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 21 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 22 | If we want to keep the best scientists and the best engineers in this country , we 'd better do two things : we 'd better attract them with good pay and we 'd better train them right and give them the proper facilities . |
| 23 | And when oversteer does come you 'd better be ready for it because it happens suddenly and rather messily . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get looking at her , had n't I ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I reckon you 'd better , Charlie . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better let me have your name . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You 'd better speak the truth , Mr. Carter , ’ said Burden , ‘ and never mind whether it 's ill or not . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better get back on duty , Nurse , and do try not to be so impulsive . |
| 29 | If you 've finished with your face you 'd better take that dog out . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd better get going , I 'm late already . ’ |