Example sentences of "well [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have thought that even you knew better than to leave the car hermetically sealed . |
| 2 | He knew better than to leave that behind . |
| 3 | Now , if you had an opportunity of glancing at the leaflet already you will have seen that the leader for this July 's er , weekend is is Mr Henry and , I do n't think I can do any better than to spend two minutes of the time that we 've got in asking Henry if he would say a word or two of introduction to the theme for this year . |
| 4 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 5 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 6 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 7 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 8 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 9 | She knew better than to urge them to dress in the fashions Lachlan had learned abroad ; but all the maids were driven frantic sewing silk and linen , gold thread , fur and leather . |
| 10 | However he knew better than to put the thought into words . |
| 11 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 12 | Tribe knew better than to join the attack , unarmed and gunless . |
| 13 | Huy knew better than to press her , and changed the subject . |
| 14 | He was a leading figure in social evolution — his second book , on the origin of civilisation as shown by the mental and social condition of savages , was published in 1870 , the year before The Descent of Man by his dear friend Charles Darwin — but he knew better than to talk of evolution in Parliament . |
| 15 | Carson knew better than to use the Mercedes as in-town transport-traffic and parking problems made a car into a liability during the daytime . |
| 16 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 17 | The men of Ring 's Amusements still worked in Sir Walter Raleigh Park , but the Dynmouth Hards knew better than to engage these men in any form of combat . |
| 18 | When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name . |
| 19 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |
| 20 | But I knew better than to broadcast those ideas around school . |
| 21 | Paige was startled by his assumption , but knew better than to deny it . |
| 22 | ‘ No , it 's not , in he said , ‘ It 's a Suo , and I should know.in I knew better than to argue with an expert , so I said nothing and quickly caught it instead . |
| 23 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 24 | And Jessamy knew better than to argue with him when he used that particular tone of voice . |
| 25 | It was an order , a decree that had to be obeyed , and the woman obviously knew better than to argue . |
| 26 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 27 | For those who would like a more relaxing evening , what better than to sit at an open air cafe , sipping an ice cold beer , listening to the local brass band in the village square and watching the sun slip down behind the mountains — perfect ! |
| 28 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 29 | He knew better than to judge by appearances . |
| 30 | I knew better than to go in . |