Example sentences of "[vb past] do better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D had the same complaint about C. B and C also admitted to finding it very difficult to manage their immediate subordinates , C and D respectively , who seemed to do better if treated as colleagues and left alone . |
| 2 | The reason girls appeared to do better than boys at age eleven was due to the earlier onset of puberty in females , with its accompanying accelerated maturation . |
| 3 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 4 | Mama Cass had done better than any of them with her solo career , but then tragically died so soon afterwards . |
| 5 | But other clubs facing similar conditions had done better than Leeds . |
| 6 | Davout told Thiercelin he had done better than expected , which was generous praise from him , especially as the marshal 's own enquiries had been unproductive . |
| 7 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 8 | She had done better than that and taken it to a jeweller to be plated and put into a mount so it could hang on her chain . |
| 9 | He had done better than they had in the sense that he had claimed the crown of France and , by treaty , had come close to exercising its authority . |
| 10 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 11 | But he had to do better than that . |
| 12 | Anne wanted to do better than Gilbert . |