Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface .
2 You 'd better hustle back to the stand , pronto !
3 If the family is sitting round peacefully sipping coffee , someone may suddenly rush out of the room .
4 " We 'd better catch up with the others , had n't we ? " he said quickly , gesturing along the track .
5 There is no real common denominator that can be used to classify the ‘ Originals ’ , the first fifty-odd recruits to the SAS , some of whose names will constantly crop up during the course of this book .
6 Here , we can perhaps refer back to the discussion of graduate employment presented early in the chapter .
7 ‘ We have invested a lot of money in people , offices and warehousing over the last two years ; and this will only show through in the company 's profits in 1994–95 . ’
8 There we are we all have different ones but we should all finish up with the same answer .
9 However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off .
10 There was no one about in the woods , so she 'd better hurry back to the town as fast as she could .
11 ‘ I just thought I 'd better keep out of the way .
12 He said he was a collector of antiques so I said I 'd better keep out of the way .
13 He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues .
14 Seven years … but still every now and then one of them will suddenly run out into the street screaming . ’
15 and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way
16 It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’
17 But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage .
18 If you get your books right , it 'll all happen out on the shopfloor , all the manager has to do .
19 She says well , we can only take up to the value of your car , , which is more than they did !
20 I 'd only end up in the doghouse myself would n't I ?
21 And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was .
22 So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’
23 ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’
24 ‘ We 'd better go through to the sports field , ’ said Robert .
25 If you want to know any more about what he 's doing you 'd better go up to the camp and ask him yourself . ’
26 We 'd better go back to the burrow .
27 ‘ I suppose we 'd better go back to the car , ’ he said in a carefully neutral tone .
28 ‘ We 'd better go back to the car , ’ he announced , and , without more ado placed a hand beneath her elbow and guided her back to his car .
29 He supposed he 'd better go back into the ballroom .
30 But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place .
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