Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked to sum up in a sentence the essence of his long career as a reporter , he considers the question for a few seconds , laughs , and says : ‘ I do n't think I could do better than quote my old friend the late Jimmy Robinson , who was the Daily Mail 's man in Belfast for many years . |
| 2 | ‘ No matter what he says or does , no matter what happens to force me towards him — I 'd die rather than marry Damian Flint ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd die rather than marry you ! ’ |
| 4 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 6 | There is another duty also to be considered : and that is the duty which Lord Atkin put in this wise : ‘ You must not injure your neighbour : ’ which I would expand so as to say that there is a duty on every man not to injure his neighbour by his want of reasonable care . |
| 7 | ’ — A response which would damage rather than increase the influence of the Merkuts in the Khanate , ’ Alexei observed . |
| 8 | He mentioned the need to bring out the practical application of subjects , in ways which would enhance rather than displace theoretical understanding . |
| 9 | The following recipe makes a fairly soft cream which will harden slightly if kept in the fridge ( to halt the formation of mould ) , but nevertheless melts on contact with the skin . |
| 10 | Of course opting-out is a nonsense which will undermine rather than reinforce the Government 's professed ambition to raise standards in schools . |
| 11 | Nobody can function effectively when attempting to move simultaneously in opposite directions . |
| 12 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 13 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 14 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 15 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 16 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 17 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 18 | She should perform well while running and reaching , but be docile enough for his family , including young children . |
| 19 | Siward was probably already one of the richest men in Scandinavian York , as well as a useful war-leader and a forthright advisor to Canute and his heirs by the time it occurred to the Lady Emma that she might do worse than encourage him to take over Northumbria . |
| 20 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 21 | Before she could ask whom he intended to marry this time he said , ‘ After you left and I had that final bust-up with Marc I rang Marianne and told her she could do better than marry a penniless school-kid . ’ |
| 22 | She had felt she 'd die rather than give him the satisfaction , but now she 'd have to be clever , for by implication she had denigrated his power and his commitment to protect her . |
| 23 | She 'd die rather than let this happen ! |
| 24 | But you 'd die rather than face it again . ’ |
| 25 | A glance at the list of some of the most popular privatisations shows that , in most cases , you 'd have more than doubled your shares when they were issued and held on to them . |
| 26 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 27 | If you would rather not grow your own , or you do not have the time to look after them , you could do worse than invest in artificial plants , which are quite stunningly realistic nowadays . |
| 28 | For a really cheap and cheerful gathering of friends you could do worse than invest in a fondue set and a plastic tablecloth and let everyone sit around dipping their bread into the cheese fondue , while holding a glass of nice wine in the other hand . |
| 29 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 30 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |