Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 2 | After considerable reflection , a discussion of the match with a wide circle of friends , a session with a sports psychiatrist , and two calls to the Samaritans , I decide that I lost because Martin played much better than I did . |
| 3 | Professional footballers fared little better than cricketers and were less likely to be able to pursue their occupation for as long . |
| 4 | Bayer fared slightly better than its rivals , turning in a 4 per cent drop in pre-tax profits during the first nine months of the year — from DM 2750m to DM 2640m . |
| 5 | Surprisingly , supermarket products fared far better than specialist varieties . |
| 6 | PHOTO-ME International , the world 's biggest photo-booths operator , yesterday announced slightly better than expected full year results . |
| 7 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 8 | The names worked even better than I expected . |
| 9 | I would n't say I enjoyed it , but it went much better than I expected and my audience were very appreciative . |
| 10 | Sometimes she thought that things went much better when Liza happened to be out of the room and she was alone with John . |
| 11 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 12 | He understood far better than Mao that socialism had to be built gradually and on the basis of ‘ capitalist production ’ . |
| 13 | The Bible for him , however , contained many truths , and he understood far better than many theologians that you must never tamper with the mythology of scripture . |
| 14 | I knew far better than to turn my head , but I had the feeling my old builder stayed squatting by the roadside . |
| 15 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 16 | His first election was 1959 , when the polls did rather better than this year . |
| 17 | When it came to recovery , Britain did rather better than many leading competitors . |
| 18 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 19 | When they were asked to turn out and fight on behalf of king or queen and country , some regiments performed much better than others . |
| 20 | In the south , this sympathy factor ensured that Congress ( I ) performed much better than had been expected . |
| 21 | The study showed that at the Honours level the non-standard entrants did somewhat better than other students , and the difference was more marked in ordinary and general degree courses . |
| 22 | In fact , in some respects at first they did so better than Copernicus 's calculations . |
| 23 | Another influence was The Girls ' Own Paper , which he liked much better than the Boys ' Own version . |
| 24 | And it should be remembered that the Whigs did much better than the Tories in the open and more popular constituencies in the elections of early 1715 , largely because the Jacobite scare and the fear of popery worked to their advantage . |
| 25 | Machines can keep the disparate parts of such a system co-ordinated much better than men can . |
| 26 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 27 | We mentioned earlier that HWIM performed slightly better than RM1 in accessing the intended words correctly . |
| 28 | Both the taxi driver and the privatizer of the police force failed to get a place on the candidates ' list , and the small number of women did proportionately better than the men . |
| 29 | He did even better than that . |
| 30 | He did even better than that . |