Example sentences of "well [subord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved better than that they should grow into thugs , and they ultimately let her down by disappointing her dream of two perfect boys . |
| 2 | ‘ You know me better than that George , ’ Sprague reproved from the corner of his mouth . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I think we can do better than that this time , ’ she told him , as she steered him from the sitting-room and along the hall and into Sebastian 's bedroom . |
| 4 | He quickly tried to put the record straight by claiming he had simply meant they operated better than before they held their own funds . |
| 5 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 6 | It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married . |
| 7 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 8 | Sometimes a crisis focuses the attention far better than if you 're doing well . |
| 9 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 10 | And good voice training will make your natural delivery sound ten times better than when you first started training . |
| 11 | I did , in fact , feel better , certainly better than when the X-rays had been taken , and much better than the period immediately before that . |
| 12 | The water was quite pleasant , certainly better than when mixed with liquorice to make ‘ Spanish water ’ . |
| 13 | At one point there was real concern about his future but he is now back and playing better than when he was first picked by England . ’ |
| 14 | I can handle success and failure better than when I was young . |
| 15 | You 're certainly looking a lot better than when they brought you in . |
| 16 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 17 | He said oh I do n't mind cleaning he said but , he 's like Derek , I mean I , ooh I can soon clean well he 's a good , you know , cleaner I mean the bath , whenever he , blimey if ever he cleans the bath it looks ten times better than when I I do it . |
| 18 | Debt collectors do it better because if they do n't get your money and look after your goodwill they do n't get paid and if they do n't get paid they are not around very long . |
| 19 | This makes them even better because if there is a problem you will have two chances of being paid instead of one . |
| 20 | It is more remarkable that the religious houses survived so well than that they were faced with economic problems , and if they were sometimes regarded as grasping landlords , they had little option to be anything else . |
| 21 | The slave will not work unless he is made , and therefore he does little ; he is no better , or little better , if he does his work well than if he does it ill , and therefore he rarely cares to do it very well . |
| 22 | Well except that we do , I mean in in offence erm we do n't get it from that particular forum , but I would n't say that , that is how we operate . |
| 23 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 24 | No , well except that it would , it would happen to some extent , I mean the key is whether you , whether or not when a complaint comes in whether you can assess that it 's likely to go |
| 25 | Well except that road up where we park |
| 26 | Well except if people are interested yes you know like |
| 27 | Erm well if if we I mean you 're you 're probably fairly clear about the archaeology area |
| 28 | Well if if you 're happy with Venn diagrams fine leave it . |
| 29 | Well if if you aim for the microphone , |
| 30 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |