I had better begin at the beginning and tell you the whole story.
"We'd better begin dumping them out pretty soon now, I think," be suggested.
I guess we'd better begin on the other end and work this way.
"If there is any shooting to be done," he was saying, "I think you had better begin with me."
But for the longer run, we need new institutions, and we had better begin thinking about them now.
"Perhaps you had better begin at the beginning," he said smoothly.
"I think we had better begin at the beginning," Robert said, clutching after the normal.
I think we had better begin with another short meeting.
Perhaps I had better begin by explaining our business to you.
We've got a lot of work to do, so we'd better begin to tackle it this afternoon.