Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 2 | Barry now parodies himself even better than Spitting Image . |
| 3 | - The banks start promising to look after you much better than ever before , and to shower you with presents . |
| 4 | I ca n't believe that Chrissie would let you come down here without setting you up better than this . ’ |
| 5 | This month , strategy will serve you far better than brute force . |
| 6 | I know you , Lissa ; I know you far better than you think , and I know exactly what 's going on in that secretive labyrinth of a mind . |
| 7 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 8 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 9 | The case trotted on at something slightly better than the conventional pace of litigation in this country and arrived at a point where each side had to ‘ discover ’ to the other all relevant documents relating to the matter . |
| 10 | Though I trust you may have something slightly better than a stall , ’ suggested the gentleman wryly . |
| 11 | Modern linguistics is a field full of conflicting theories , and an external observer would be hard put to accept one as better than the rest . |
| 12 | Are we no better than snails , to carry round with us a whole house of past circumstance ? ’ |
| 13 | This makes them even better because if there is a problem you will have two chances of being paid instead of one . |
| 14 | ‘ They knew him much better than I did . |
| 15 | When David did not answer , she went on : ‘ After all , I suspect that you know him far better than I have ever done . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps because I knew from an early age that he was not long for this world , I tried to make his time in it as pleasant as possible , and thus ended up treating him far better than most young boys treat their younger brothers . |
| 17 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 18 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 19 | I liked it far better than this North Africa , which is more ‘ civilised ’ and cultivated . |
| 20 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 21 | ‘ Although Victoria Sanchez would do it even better than I would . ’ |
| 22 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |
| 23 | Two members of the band posed with a laughing Mr Brooke , who said : ‘ I know them considerably better than I did 15 minutes ago , ’ — but he declined to offer a rendition of any of their songs . |
| 24 | He ca n't behave or think or speak or do anything else better than I can — nearly as well as I can — so he 's going to be the Old Man of the Sea until I shake him off somehow . |