Example sentences of "better [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have been better off staying in the hole ! |
| 2 | Faced with such a threat … spiders may be better off lurking beneath the plughole from now on . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , those of you yet to take out a home-loan but thinking of doing so might be better off going for the repayment version where you pay off a little bit of the loan and interest as you go along . |
| 4 | You would also be billed for help in rescuing a cat from a tree — you 'd be better off going to the RSPCA who will save your moggy cost-free . |
| 5 | You may be better off going to the RSPCA , which is free |
| 6 | The main slope is 180m with a respectable gradient which stops skiers who are better off practising on the trainer or nursery slope , where there is room for up to 100 skiers . |