Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] better [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top management is clearly very important to the organisation , and managers are realising that management information systems can help them make better decisions . |
| 2 | I got better results than if I 'd stayed at school . |
| 3 | I got better results than what they did with their with their fancy gadgets . |
| 4 | I got better results than some of the actual fifteen year olds . |
| 5 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 6 | The Mainbocher triumphs were spiced with occasional purchases in Paris , but on the whole she found French clothes too imposing : ‘ I had better things to do in Paris than go for endless fittings anyway . |
| 7 | I had better things to do than just sit in an office talking . |
| 8 | I 've better things to do than make a fool of myself with you . |
| 9 | " I have better things to do . " |
| 10 | I have better things to do . |
| 11 | The Boro boss said : ‘ I have better things to do than discuss idle gossip . |
| 12 | Children were given care and attention 24-hours a day in an environment which would encourage them to lead better lives , he said . |
| 13 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 14 | The more you pass the more money you get and you get better qualifications . |
| 15 | You get better speeches than in the Commons , ’ he insists . |
| 16 | ‘ The good ones do n't have time for long drunken lunches , and you get better results by getting them to give you and the client a sandwich in a bar at six p.m . |
| 17 | Tabitha liked it well enough as it was , though she remembered better days , not so many years ago , when the jazz bands in the bodegas had been almost loud enough to drown the furious rattle of the old spice prospectors playing mah-jongg . |
| 18 | Please could you put better games on the Megatape ? |
| 19 | And if you 've better things to do than clean the oven make sure you choose the optional Valorclean liners . |
| 20 | 'Appen she had better things to do , eh , George ? ’ |
| 21 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 22 | She had better things to do , a world to conquer and so forth , who did he think he was ? — Foreigners can be dogged . |
| 23 | But , she decided , when she got up on Saturday morning , she had better things to do than to let such matters worry her . |
| 24 | With a stuffed-to-capacity briefcase , she had better things to do with her time too , anyway . |
| 25 | She had better legs than Gabriel , and knew it . |
| 26 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 27 | I 've chosen you because I 've noticed you have better powers of concentration than either of my sisters . ’ |
| 28 | Undoubtedly you have better things to do than reply to me , but then again I am too busy to write except that I am so annoyed . |
| 29 | That is where people live and that is where we must support one another in enduring the present , while we imagine better things , fight for better things and gradually achieve better things . |
| 30 | People know there is no tourism policy , and the number of personnel has doubled over the last years , but are we getting better services ? |