Example sentences of "[pers pn] well than " in BNC.
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| 1 | These pieces represent English Romanticism at its peak and nobody did them better than Beecham . |
| 2 | Take our kids away from us because you reckon you know what 's good for them better than what we do ? |
| 3 | Dr Jean Coope , in Menopause , advises : ‘ You may not think the stranger is the perfect son or daughter-in-law , but the chances are that your children know who will suit them better than you do , and the sooner you accept this fact , the happier your family will be . ’ |
| 4 | While appreciating the extraordinary difficulties facing Mr Lamont , it must still be said that he could have handled them better than this . |
| 5 | They also tended to know their middle-class patients better and communicated with them better than with their working-class patients . |
| 6 | ‘ They have taken to all the noise and building work around them better than we hoped and we are looking forward to the arrival of six cow elephants and one bull in six weeks time . ’ |
| 7 | I like them better than the modern ones . |
| 8 | ‘ You know me better than that Ma , ’ he laughed . |
| 9 | I wanted my friends to know me better than they had before . |
| 10 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 11 | Looking at the ground , he said , ‘ You know me better than anyone , Giancarlo , but this you do not understand . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You should know me better than to have to ask that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The 1990 NSR250 suited me better than the ‘ 89 version , which used to suffer from bad front wheel slides . |
| 14 | You know me better than that , do n't you ? |
| 15 | Oh God , I hope my belly spoke for me better than my fucking brain , in other words . |
| 16 | ‘ He knows me better than that . ’ |
| 17 | And then , to Devlin : ‘ You know me better than that , Jimmy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You know me better than that , ’ said Memet . |
| 19 | ‘ You should know me better than that . |
| 20 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It suits me better than it suits him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So you understand me better than I understand myself . |
| 23 | I could see she was feeling she should n't have told me , but I knew she trusted me better than anyone else . |
| 24 | It prepared me better than anything I 'd read or seen for the crisp exterior and soft centre of the Big Apple . |
| 25 | I thought you at least knew me better than that . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You know me better than that George , ’ Sprague reproved from the corner of his mouth . |
| 27 | GET TO KNOW ME BETTER THAN MY BEST MATE DOES ! |
| 28 | ( 94 ) … " suffering as usual " , but hoped , he told Arthur , " to find this place agree with me better than Naples " . |
| 29 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |
| 30 | I mean , you know me better than anyone in the world , you probably love me better than anyone in the world , but you still never know another person one hundred per cent . ’ |