Example sentences of "should [vb infin] better [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 2 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 3 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 4 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 6 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 7 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 9 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 10 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 11 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 12 | The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before . |
| 13 | For it was proper that in matters of sacrifice the ruler should fare better than the commoner and the nation than the ruler , since the whole should always be superior to the part … |
| 14 | It will certainly be a challenging year for , but with our strengths in quality and efficiency , we should fare better than our competitors and be in a strong position when better times return . |
| 15 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |