Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 2 | Individuals may survive better when they join forces with others ( 1985 : 3 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 6 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 8 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 9 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 11 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 12 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 13 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 14 | The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before . |
| 15 | For it was proper that in matters of sacrifice the ruler should fare better than the commoner and the nation than the ruler , since the whole should always be superior to the part … |
| 16 | It will certainly be a challenging year for , but with our strengths in quality and efficiency , we should fare better than our competitors and be in a strong position when better times return . |
| 17 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 18 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 19 | Perhaps the fallen girls might behave better if they were not constantly reminded how different they were . |
| 20 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 21 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 22 | He is also much more positive than many earlier organization theorists , who emphasized the complexities of individual behaviour in organizations but did little to help top managers except to say their task was very difficult and that they might do better if they understood that . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll do better than that . |
| 24 | ‘ I hope you 'll do better when I 'm in trouble . ’ |
| 25 | Eubank said : ‘ Michael is never far from my thoughts — but he 'll understand better than anyone that on the day I must close out everything except the fight . |
| 26 | Insofar as they intruded on the very different trade in superior goods which Britain and Germany and USA could make better than they could and for which these and other countries had established legitimate mark[et]s and insofar as this intrusion was achieved by methods of subsidy and selling at less than cost it was an illegitimate trade and very disruptive in world trading circles . |
| 27 | ‘ Well that 's the case anyway : whether it would stand up in court you 're the lawyer you 'd know better than I but we 're not talking about courts and proof just leaks and public opinion . |
| 28 | ‘ And who could know better than you ? |
| 29 | We really could do better than that and began rehearsing the ‘ Messiah . ’ |
| 30 | We knew we could do better than that , so we just decided to take the time and not put anything out we were n't happy with . ’ |