Example sentences of "have do better [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful , when they would have done better not to be so successful . |
| 2 | The author would have done better here if he had avoided the generalisations . |
| 3 | They say that America would have done better simply to import the Canadian system of national insurance financed by taxes . |
| 4 | Thereafter McCoist had two ‘ goals ’ disallowed — one inexplicably — and he might have done better immediately after the break when Hateley , the most dominant attacking figure on the field , crossed to the head of the striker after an excellent run down the right . |
| 5 | I 'd have done better just believing everything I was taught when I was young ! |
| 6 | Tommy Mooney should have done better just before half time after going through but he rushed his shot and failed to even hit the target . |
| 7 | I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency ; I am merely saying that the Northern Ireland economy has done very much better in the latest recession — and would have done better still had it not been for the appalling IRA atrocities that make inward investment so difficult . |