Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 2 | She knew already that to think like a servant was the surest way to remain one — something she was determined not to do . |
| 3 | She knew better than to walk around the front of the house . |
| 4 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 5 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 6 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 7 | He knew better than to judge by appearances . |