Example sentences of "[coord] i [verb] well " in BNC.
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1 | Or I 'd better provide you with some paper . |
2 | Like they make a mistake , or I 'd better phone back , and then it cost them all that much money again , more money . |
3 | ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here ! |
4 | ‘ I said we 've talked enough , and I 'd better go and see Hayley Burton . ’ |
5 | it was only ten to eight and I got up because I thought I was getting late for work and I 'd better get moving . |
6 | I was just about to say I expect you could really make a mess if you tried and then I realized I was covered in and I 'd better shut up . |
7 | the real old gardeners and I mean well every house had one because they used to grow their own vegetables did n't they ? |
8 | And I 've well the people , all the people I 've spoken to and everybody I 've spoken to is very unhappy ! |
9 | ‘ I 'm no use to anyone in football and I had better get out , ’ he said . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | And I had better not think like that , said Fenella silently , or I shall be too afraid to go any nearer . |
12 | And I had better chances of getting a proper house for myself and my family which was then two daughters and my wife and I . |
13 | And I says well it is two different meanings the one I 'm using is just if you can spare it , if you can it . |
14 | and she 's had to go and buy some that had gone , and I says well I , she says it 's just burning it up that fire |
15 | Anyway I were looking and I looked and I looked and I looked and I says well what cigarettes do you use for it ? |
16 | one of the lads at work come up says there 's a disco on March twenty eight and before I said I 'm already booked , I said yeah , he says er how much do you charge , I told him and I says well if you let me have confirmation as soon as you can and a deposit of ten or fifteen pounds as soon as you can |
17 | And I says well is he gon na stay overnight , you know , with these two ? |
18 | And then when I went up home , I 'd have took them out and put them in the fridge and she says what are you doing and I says well that 's a couple of day 's meat for you and she says no no take that off home , take that off home , I 've and I says no that 'll do you . |
19 | specialist or something or , or training to do , and I says well what , what do you pay his car insurance for then if his working ? , oh well he does n't earn enough |
20 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
21 | I found that love went out the window when it was sweaty socks and handkerchiefs and dirty nappies and all this in front of me and I thought well this is not romance this is bloody hard work . |
22 | And I thought well I I 'll do this with all summer flowers . |
23 | And I thought well well |
24 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
25 | Until I re and , well until my husband retired at sixty and I thought well if he 's going to retire at sixty , I might as well retire , you see . |
26 | Well my brother was in the Artillery and I thought well it be nice if I can get with him but that did n't work out that way . |
27 | I was actually quite low on the activists and higher on these three but I managed to wonder sometimes where I worked ever so hard on a session I ca n't really ca n't understand you know why it 's not going very well and I thought well when I then watched other people do something that had a lot of action I thought well why did they like that more and I never I did n't know but I 've actually learnt that you have to put activities in , cos you , you know you do get people with a very strong activist preference . |
28 | about sixty headsets and I thought well who are these people we 're getting , I think a lot of them were social workers , so that 's fair enough |
29 | I had another good horse , and I thought well I 'll stick with that one , I think that one might stand a chance . |
30 | Like , when they all went off and I thought well I do n't see , why do n't they just stop it . |