Example sentences of "it [adv] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID went to sea and rose to command a naval ship ; after losing an arm in a naval battle , he was offered but refused a knighthood ; in his book Memorials of Ochiltree , David Ramsay says that when David 's brother James Tennant asked why he had refused the honour , he replied , ‘ Deed , Jamie , I just considered it little better than a nickname . ’ |
| 2 | I liked it far better than this North Africa , which is more ‘ civilised ’ and cultivated . |
| 3 | She had seen his point of view and expressed it even better than he did . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Victoria Sanchez would do it even better than I would . ’ |
| 5 | And yet I know it almost better than my own street . |