Example sentences of "well [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it was rephrased , ‘ Do you ever find yourself saying , I wish 1 could do this better or I wish I knew more about that ? ’ it was more easily understood . |
| 2 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 3 | Better that I do n't that I do n't be proud better live in harmony . |
| 4 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 5 | A foot of honour better than I was |
| 6 | A foot of honour better than I was , |
| 7 | I start to hear everything much better than I normally do . |
| 8 | I 've written you poems better than I ever dreamed I could write … ’ |
| 9 | I 've also adopted the philosophy that I must develop somebody to do my job better than I have done it . |
| 10 | I feel at ease — much better than I did then . ’ |
| 11 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 12 | ‘ Better than I , at any rate . ’ |
| 13 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 14 | Of course he would know all the teachers and their nicknames better than I would . |
| 15 | ‘ Better than I 've ever done ! ’ |
| 16 | Books and tapes of TV programmes record the genesis and growth of Grove House , The Bristol Cancer Help Centre better than I ever could . |
| 17 | Better than I was , at any rate . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It knew better than I did what to do . |
| 20 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 21 | I am not jealous of people who do things better than I can . |
| 22 | Old Fishfinger remembers the days of the Bumper Book for Boys better than I do , but despite the archaic title , this is a nice easily-digestible and colourful book , covering 240 colour pages with the combined wit and wisdom of Dick Mills , Chris Andrews , Barry James , and David Papworth . |
| 23 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 24 | It 's because I like the way the note A sounds on the top string better than I do on the second , but I like A on the second string better than I do on the third , and so on . |
| 25 | I feel now that I can express myself better than I ever could in the last fifteen years ; I 've even gotten into the Mississippi Delta style , fingerpicking blues . |
| 26 | I was going out and playing five nights a week and I realised I should be a hell of a lot better than I was . |
| 27 | I 'm getting scripts now , I 'm doing better than I 've ever done in my life , Kerr says I 'm as funny in Eh ? as Buster Keaton . ’ |
| 28 | He does it better than I do . ’ |
| 29 | Better than I run Doune , I am afraid . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |