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Sentence Examples We had better do it because if we don't, the Americans are going to shut us down. I thought I had better do something about it now before it really gets going, because I would not want something like this on my own doorstep. They had better songs but more importantly they covered a broader age range, exhibiting a shrewdness lost on later generations of Svengalis. Emily saw the smirk on his face and decided that she had better do something before poor Vlad was taken advantage of by this harlot. I held the eviction threats that said Saturday's Grave had better pay up soon, or we would be history. I am definitely more about making people aware, that you had better do something for yourself instead of sitting around blaming everyone else. Departments think that they had better do something about an issue, and bring forward legislation at the last minute. But people were listening to something, they called it music and Mellers felt we had better do something about understanding it. Drivers in the city who have not paid their parking fines had better beware. You had better straighten up right this minute or you'll go to bed without dinner. Someone had better spare me from their ramblings of fashion trends and marriage. The Guardianship Council had better be careful about acting too high-handedly. Consumer-electronics companies worldwide had better be looking over their shoulders. At least five A.L. outfielders that year had better numbers than this man in the twilight of his career. I've got a load of cataloguing to do, then I'll be up all night unpacking the artifacts that had better arrive tomorrow or my name is mud. Women wanting to take part in this year's Race for Life in Southampton had better get their skates on as places are filling fast. You had better leave before she gets back or she'll tan your hide for certain sure. Once the procurement is decided, we had better strike while the iron is hot. If you have come here merely to boast, to be uncivil, and to play on my pride, you insufferable boy, then you had better leave. If we are going to say that our mind colors the world, we had better be prepared to produce an image of the world that is uncolored. Show More Sentences At a minimum, the Bush administration had better step up its promotion of the economy's current sizzling performance. He is not shy with his bouncer and England's batsmen had better check the sturdiness of their helmets. Pressley had better be quick as, if he doesn't reach the podium sharpish, he might find his guvnor has already lifted the pot. Despite her disdain for the class and it's students, Angelique had better luck than most of them. I'm not backing down, so the gunmakers and shop owners had better get used to my face and my name. And they seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads in the future. Retailers in Kingston selling fireworks to underage youths in the run up to Guy Fawkes night had better watch out. The Soviet Union had better technology and more money to spend on it than America, and that made the Americans jealous, even envious. But if you are going to claim that Mexican immigrants don't want to be Americans, your argument had better be watertight. And we had better begin to look at ways and means of reducing carbon emissions. This, I thought contemplating another few cramped and whiffy hours, had better be worth it. You had better have a darn good reason for any involvement in the casualty insurance racket. For cripes's sake if there is one thing you had better learn about working in a library is that you had better act nice. You had better believe that there were a number of golf pros who were keyed up a little bit more than usual. I've probably had better performances in Grand Slam finals but you can't win them all. His biggest turn-on is a girl in a bikini, so I had better get to the gym post-haste. Sims had better deliver because the club paid a steep price, its third-round pick, to move up two spots to draft him. Sancho Panza thinks they had better bring the two portmanteaus back to Ireland as quietly as possible. If he expects people ultimately to respect his judgment, he had better stop trying to flannel at every opportunity. They had better success, after much trial and error, by using a one-step cocktail fixative. Show More Sentences I want to ask her about the public image of her as a ladette, but decide I had better soften the question a little. Dolly had better luck with Cat Stevens, one of her all-time favourite singers. They have all turned up in good nick, and on the track they have all had better times than last year. After moving to the top of the table they have also signalled their cup intentions and holders Guiseley had better look to their laurels. After another ritual check, Howard determined that he had better not go more than another kilometer before his next position fix. Conductors and soloists had better know it and have it ready if they want to work. If rap or trance music with pounding bass lines is your staple musical diet, you had better look elsewhere. I've never had better fish and chips, and the town didn't actually smell as fishy as you might expect. Swindon police had better luck bringing their Al Capone to justice than their American counterparts. On another note, the Rocket Prof had better stay anonymous if he's going to take on sacred cows like global warming. For a go-getter like Eileen, they had better get the plane warmed up and ready, and the Canadian Embassy should get the visa stamps inked! They not only had better coffee, they also invented the virtual coffee klatch. When I see Tom Langston again the nurse had better be near or else he might just bleed to death. Among his inspired predictions are a few that I'd say had better hurry up and be accomplished. I hope you had better weather for them than the kind we are having now-a-days, but it is not so bad here considering it is winter. As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it. You had better avoid entertaining my idle speculations, Mr Hore-Lacey, and deal with your application. Whoever is commentating on the races at Newcastle tomorrow had better start rehearsing a tongue-twister of a name tonight. But whatever's wrong you two had better work it out before Adrien finds out or you'll both be in for it. If your customers decide that they no longer like what you produce, then you had better produce something else, smartish. Show More Sentences I've had better ideas than going out after drinks, on an empty stomach, when feeling a mite peaky to see a free film. But if the issue is war, in which many thousands of people undoubtedly will die, the cause had better be transcendently important. The Vote is a powerful polemic arguing that the right to vote, like democracy, has been subverted and we had better do something about it. Glancing at his watch, he realized he had better do it tomorrow. In anticipation of 2016 the GOP had better consolidate its goods and reinvent its brand. It had better reviews entering the market than bachelorette, it had a twisty plot, it had the stars. City Hall security in Toronto had better be on high alert if Ford really has been bitten by the snake. The folks at the White House had better understand how quickly a campy horror movie can get ugly. Now, Mr Translator, you had better be sworn or affirmed, I think. If you're more concerned about making tee times on your honeymoon than in making whoopee, then you had better get used to sleeping with your golf bag. Maybe he would have had better luck crossing party lines and working with Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. And if this did come, as reported, from his inner security circle, then that means the knives are out, the daggers are drawn, and he had better watch his back everywhere. It had better not do so for the health of Korean capitalism. With Bulgaria's top officials playing musical chairs as the new government comes into power, they had better be paying attention to this developing problem. Anyone seeking a little light reading had better steer clear of this book. Harry had better come back with a clean chin or else granny will not be pleased. Anyone who hoped that they might see Gordon Brown bestriding the continent of Africa dressed nattily in a safari suit and a bush hat had better forget it. They would have had better luck with a normal poster on the side street behind the square. If your foreign policy results in swelling the ranks of your existing enemies, and creating whole new enemies, you had better start beefing up your defence. Now this may be severe but when you are on the trackless desert of Arabia and your life is entrusted to a horse, you had better have a trained obedient horse. Show More Sentences Maybe he had better do something, like set fire to a nearby tree. If the FA thinks that was bad, they had better do something soon. I believe that you had better get back to your mistress, young miss. The Sox may have won, and the Sunday papers would be full of their rhetoric and the blow-by-blow descriptions, but we had better things to do than suffer. Some guys had better skill sets in some areas versus others. The powers that be had better soon realise that this varsity has outstanding lecturers who are by far the most competent and passionate people for the job. We had better hold a cabinet council and decide how much we can afford to spend in housekeeping and other departments, and cut our coat according to our cloth. I don't know who decided, at whatever stage, that being buttoned up and possessed of a stiff upper lip was a bad thing and that Englishmen had better loosen up. If fuel prices continue to rise and the Government is not prepared to do something about fuel duty, then it had better look out, warn hard-line farmers. Anyone who thinks that the cheeseboard should be offered only with a glass of port on a cold winter's night had better hurry up and join the 21st century. Surprisingly, the results of our study indicated that the animals nourished with standard rat chow had better results than the group supplemented with fibre and arginine. I thought you had better sense than to fall for a swindler and a criminal. No matter how credible, genuinely intentioned, or brilliant an aspirant is, if he does not fit into the caucus's agenda, he had better drop his ambition. She had better not lay a finger on him or she'll have to deal with me! He hates drinking with the flies so someone had better join him soon. Maybe he had better try to change the cover-ups to the truth. They had better preseasons than Davis, who struggled with injuries. Some digital effects are used magnificently, when filmmakers don't forget their movies had better have some soul as well as all that visual glitter and glam. Pa had frowned a little at that, but Miss Inger had given him back a look that definitely said she was in charge of gumdrops and Adam's father had better not argue about it. If you are trying to get 100 musicians to play your symphony, you had better have your ducks in a row before you walk into the hall with an armload of scores. Show More Sentences If you take him, you had better be very confident that your coaching staff will be willing to work with the kid in practice and drill him every day. For this reason the expression had better, considered as a kind of compound verb, is sometimes classed along with the modals or as a semimodal. And pushers, hos and honkies had better watch out, because our man is one superbad sucka who knows kung-fu. He broke off and bit his lip, feeling that he had better subdue the rising anger in his voice. You had better believe I have an axe to grind with him after what he said about me! Morocco, Russia and Iran all had better records than England for protecting children from injury by other pupils, according to the Pirls study. If we are serious about putting the party of Lincoln back on track, we had better begin to pick up what black folk are putting down. The Chilcootens told him that he had better clattawa and gave him a knife, to defend himself in case he came across any white men. So when the distinguished, elderly scientist Professor Michio Kaku predicts intelligent wallpaper, we had better pay attention. Brummies had better beware how they converse with Kiwis, and hippies should watch out too. Even those very young and very drunk Sheffield lads, the Arctic Monkeys, had better manners than old pottymouth Sharon. The UK designs also had better materials such as the Nimonic alloys for turbine blades. Atahualpa was thus closer to, and had better relations with the army and its leading generals. You had better crack the books if you want to have any chance of graduating this year. But first off all let's get past this kid tonight, then the rest of the domestic flyweights had better watch out. In contrast, the German ships had better optical equipment and rangefinding and were much better compartmentalized and able to deal with damage. Anyone hankering for startling revelations or amusing anecdotes had better look elsewhere. Ladies complained of the men's arguesome natures, stating they were relatively certain that grizzly bears had better dispositions. Well, as you will now no longer have need of my services, I suppose I had better dehypnotize you. A Daal effort after 68 minutes was cleared by Craig Reid but five minutes later he had better luck. Show More Sentences Those who had previously received Lucentis had better visual acuity at the start of the study and, on average, maintained their visual acuity after 12 months. As Nicuesa was wealthier and had better credit with the colonial authorities he was able to attract 800 men, many horses, five caravels and two brigs. And the legislature had better study Texas, before it commits this state to parimutuel betting, thus letting the professional gambler get his foot in the door. Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any. German ships had better internal subdivision and had fewer doors and other weak points in their bulkheads, but with the disadvantage that space for crew was greatly reduced. He was replaced by Scheer, who believed that the fleet had been used too defensively, had better ships and men than the British, and ought to take the war to them. The Germans also generally had better propellant handling procedures, a point that was to have disastrous consequences for the British battlecruisers at Jutland. My driving licence runs out next week, so I had better renew it now. Classmates who were actively involved with other peers in tutoring had better academic standing than those students who were not part of the tutoring program. Those hospital folks from Texas had better come to town with their six-guns loaded when they face Eugene politicians about building a new hospital somewhere in the city. If a hockey player blindsides a goalie, the guilty party had better be ready for a hip check into the boards or at the very least a firm facewash in the crease. Despite my vigilant nature watch, sadly the reticent boa constrictor had better things to do than scare the bejesus out of a bunch of gawping tourists. The ZnO-coated polyester had better UV absorbing property and water repellence due to the good homogeneity and dispersion of ZnO micropartices in the textile polymeric matrix. Then papa began to get very tired of Jones, and fidgeted and finally said, with jocular irony, that Jones had better stay all night, they could give him a shake-down. Examples from Classical Literature I told her she had better think over what I said about that Eg's schemin' to get her mother and the five thousand dollars. Yes, he had better make his bet before these whisperings came to other ears. All other peas had better be bushed, that they may be easily picked, and that the later ones may mature. You had better leave your horse at some cabaret on this side of the town, and go in on foot. We think that when you get your clavier with your Commencement money, we had better get a piano also. But it seems to me now that I had better tell you what the cumaean Sibyl has actually done for me. Until then, however, you had better come into the house with Miss dean and me. If he never goes to school at all he had better have that lesson than all the schooling in the world. This pudding is excellent, but any one troubled with dyspepsia had better not eat it. The fact still remains that epsilon had better be habitable or Pan-Asia will scream we're hogging it. Mr Fuseli criticises the passage, and assumes that the painter had better reason than that given by Mr falconet. If we want to see the encampment, we had better not have anything to do with the fortune-teller. But they felt that something had better be done toward assurance of their futures. Perhaps he had better put some kind of germicide on his palm, just to ward off infection. You had better have one of the guards in the corridor, where Denberg and Semensky are, wear this goldfish bowl, as you call it. Do you think I had better place the matter in the hands of the postal authorities? Then it occurred to the guitarist and the young lady that we had better sit down. At the same time, you had better take your havildar and his troopers with you. I guess we understand each other, so you and he had better start for the silicon. The range of smoky mills driven by a sluice from the fall had better be away. Show More Sentences I told him huffily that if that was all he could say I had better have kept the story to myself. Do you think, Congo, we had better follow the spoor we made in coming here? I thought that I had better not imperil my newly gained reputation by guessing. Those, therefore, who are not able and willing to rough it had better not venture far beyond Tarbert and Stornoway. Perhaps he is a decent sort of worm, but the lessor had better look out for him. You had better get such a photograph, even if you have a liber print as well. Then he told himself that he was lightheaded and hysterical and that he had better wonder what would actually be written. So that at long and last he got to know that he had better give the little green man a wide berth. A timber-hitch had better have the loose end twisted more than once, if the rope be stiff. The Boer left it to the Kaffir, and the uitlander had better things to think about. He had better have a millstone round his neck, and be cast into the deepest sea. The men had better heads than the women, underdeveloped yet comparatively well balanced. If you are mooning about that worthless boy of yours, you had better get over it. He wrote again, in an unoffended business like tone, suggesting that he had better draw at three days. Now, the seller had better beware of what he says, for he may find himself liable as a warrantor. I think you had better give some palm wine to our men to make a dance this evening. We had better proceed to Zacatecas, and procure the animals and the guide there. I was just about to say, that for the convenience of posting you had better make it gold. And therefore you had better decide at once with which of the two you are proposing to argue. Mrs. Smith's doctor tells her if she wants poison she had better get ratsbane, and then she will know what she is swallowing. Show More Sentences You had better shut up the chamber for at least some weeks, burn fires in it, repaint and paper it, sprinkle chloroform. If you want to give pleasure to others, cried the Roman candle, you had better keep yourself dry. Then she said we had better go to her couturier in the Rue de la Paix. It was smaller and lighter than RAF fighters, had better visibility and could outclimb the Spitfire. Don't you think we had better avoid all unprofitable discussion? Max had better be a sheep or a manx cat, and not bother about a tail. You had better go over and see our neighbours tomorrow, Emmaline,' he replied gravely. Now, you had better go down to the brook in the dingle and have a drink. You had better take this young Pathan and settle things with him. She thanks me for asking her here, as usual, but says she shall go right to work and had better begin with her own little room at once. Since dom Miguel asked for you, you had better remain, perhaps. He told us we had a long night drive ahead of us, and had better be on the hike. If discovered at once the bitten part had better be excised. You had better return to plumber, or Saint George and the dragon. You had better place two of your station police in charge while you telephone to Scotland Yard. If you have fixed it up with the lady and gentleman present here for your board and lodging you had better say so. A man had better sleep without his scalp, than famish in the midst of plenty. Meantime, grandmotherly interference had better let it alone. Those words were effort enough, and had better have been unsaid. You had better mettle as mit ter deyvel, as mit ter hunters, Tey live mit ter gun, and a rifle is better as ter law. Show More Sentences Guess you had better bring her back to-morrow when Hanson is here. Hatty, you had better get out of the way of calling her Cecilia. But if he marries a very ignorant, vulgar woman, certainly I had better not visit her, if I can help it. Then he sat down to rest by the side of the milestone, and began to think, for the first time, where he had better go and try to live. The heedful pedestrian had better not try to keep by its green banks. You had better throw that idea out of your mind and go ahead with your musical telegraph, which if it is successful will make you a millionaire. Sir, he had better raise this siege, to go and sit down before Edward if he wishes to frighten his enemy with words. As we are not, we had better save our energies to minimize the harm we are likely to do before we follow her. I had better have let it wait till morning, for it gave me a second sleepless night. This, however, had better also be deferred to the chapter on ontogeny. Surely they had better wait and see what was to happen, instead of making mountains out of molehills. Whoever makes the real Gram Parsons had better do it right, or I'll be looking for them. However, to make sure, maybe I had better have a squint at my compass. Mr. Mill had better be cautious in talking about ignoratio elenchi. You had better not begin to praise them overmuch, or I shall be jealous. He had told Mildred that he was sick of being pestered, and she had better take herself off and not bother him again. Family squabbling is the greatest evil of all, and we had better do anything than be altogether by the ears. I think you had better speak to Captain kentledge on the subject. She had better leave them for Mrs. Kirkpatrick to find out for herself. She had better be housemaid at Laconia, or go in the mills again. Show More Sentences As a rule, the needle had better not be used, but a suppository given. If a man is not a laugher by nature, he had better let it alone. You had better let me invest it along with your six thousand, because if you take it you'll spend it. We had better go some morning when the troops are parading there. If the projectile is to command the gunner, we had better ram the gunner into the gun. In such a case the clockmaker had better be at once consulted. You had better look about you, and ascertain what you do, and what you mean to do. Since 'aroint thee, witch,' is your creed, I think you had better try him. What do you think we had better do about this, Dr. Arrowsmith? None had better than Robert, the technic of artificial respiration. I will drop you a slight hint, which you had better bear in mind. He was in doubt as to the attitude he had better assume to Will and Ted. I think that perhaps I and Larkin had better go over to Basingstoke. So you had better produce the other bauble you stole at the same time. You had better take her in to the fire,' said the locksmith. Gurwood went out with bradshaw, which he had better not have done. But he must have had better luck on his flight from Worcester than I had on that miserable isle. I guess we had better not stop this time, but wait for a lowery day. For this the operator had better dress as for a parturition case. Then we had better leave the train at chalons and return to Paris. Show More Sentences He was wondering whether he had better bring his three chums on the trip. I hae had better kail in my cog, and ne'er gae them a keytch. Well, perhaps I had better not ask, for this is no confessional, is it? Don't you think we had better put our wraps away and convene? All the parts not desirable for roast or steak had better be corned. Those who wish to be safe had better go soon, for the dykes will be opened to-morrow, and who can fly when the whole country is under water? I think you had better, for if I have got to keep accounts I may as well begin in the right way. You had better, it seems to me, have painted a harvest home. I think we had better get under the veranda of the old chalet. Do you not think that I had better go home before it gets dark? If you are not afraid to come to the old marshes to-night or tomorrow night at Nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the limekiln, you had better come. We made frightful noises to terrify them still more, and then we dropped off the ledge, because somebody was drawing the bars, and we felt we had better flee. You had better sit down in there, and entrust your message to me. The servants had better be warned beforehand, in case of this adventuress or madwoman, whichever she may be, attempting to make her way into the house. Ask me to do anything in my office, putting my head in great extra danger, and I had better trust my life to the chances of a refusal than the chances of consent. I had better say at once that his manners, and the arrogance with which he assumed to know what was incomprehensible even to us, impressed him unfavourably on my mind. Well, my dear cordon-bleu, to whom I should give the cross of the Legion of honor, is there some little dainty for which I had better reserve myself? She had better go up and see him right away,' suggested Van Tromp. The ceremony of delivering the keys had better come off forthwith. As to the choice of the spot, obviously such criminating evidence had better take its chance of being found anywhere, rather than upon himself, or in his possession. Find more words! 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