Example sentences of "had [verb] the better " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dons had enjoyed the better of the early exchanges with Scott Booth in particularly lively form . |
| 2 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 3 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 4 | For a British army encamped on ancient Carthaginian ground , it was perhaps natural to enjoy without too many qualms some at least of the diversions which Livy suggested had got the better of the Carthaginians . |
| 5 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 6 | Dadda 's temper , that he had inherited along with Dadda 's darkness and Dadda 's height , had got the better of him and he had attacked her , physically attacked her . |
| 7 | But then her pride and her curiosity had got the better of her again , and she remembered why she had agreed to the meeting in the first place . |
| 8 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 9 | McStay and Grant had got the better of Hamilton and McGinlay while Slater and Collins were more effective than Lennon and Wright on the flanks . |
| 10 | The High Court in Inverness heard that PC John Smith 's curiosity had got the better of him when he learned that a Murdo MacIver from his home town of Stornoway was in custody . |
| 11 | Over her supine body Andrew and Horatia 's eyes met and she took the initiative , knowing she had to get the better of the marquis straight away . |