Example sentences of "better [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An X/Open spokesman said COSE now better understands the task , resources and overall timeframe . |
| 2 | An X/Open spokesman said that COSE now better understands the task , resources and overall timeframe . |
| 3 | Because this guitar is so strummable , but a pig to keep level , I 'm tempted to suggest that maybe Paul Chandler should make another instrument with the same hardware , neck dimensions and action , but with a body that better counteracts the imbalance . |
| 4 | ‘ And … ’ the voice continued with studied casualness , ‘ perhaps you 'd better double the money … . ’ |
| 5 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , if there 's no one you can call you 'd better stay the night . |
| 7 | From the many letters I receive I know how popular my teddy patterns have become and so I have done two special seasonable designs , this one depicting a teddy pulling a sledge full of gifts and for the next issue two teddies … well , perhaps you had better buy the magazine to find out for yourself ! |
| 8 | One resident had written to the council suggesting a secular group building might better suit the area 's needs , saying she would prefer a facility which would offer something for more of the residents . |
| 9 | Nothing better illustrates the change in English religious life produced by the nineteenth century than the proximity of the Wesleyans ' new Central Hall to the Anglicans ' new Church House ( put up between 1891 and 1902 ) and the Roman Catholics ' Westminster Cathedral further down Victoria Street . |
| 10 | The figures here are carved in a flat plane and in the profile view normal in low relief , which much better illustrates the narrative ( fig. 24 ) . |
| 11 | No story better illustrates the importance of the English-speaking world that Britain had brought into being , than James Flanagan 's reception . |
| 12 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 13 | ‘ Since I am like to be murdered for it , I had better know the tune ! ’ |
| 14 | You 'd better know the theory and the practice of the venue 's fire regulations . |
| 15 | The better sorted the sediment of a given calibre the steeper the beach : again it is a question of permeability , the possible volume of voids and hence the permeability being greater in well-sorted sediments . |
| 16 | Another suggestion is to decorate trays , mats and coasters , although you will get better results taking them to a framer to be professionally heat-sealed , so they will better withstand the heat from a plate or teapot . |
| 17 | Er , but by the time I had my passport so I thought may not get a job again better to try the luck somewhere else . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 19 | Actually — ’ she frowned at her watch as she followed the other girl to the door ‘ — I definitely think I 'd better give the coffee a miss . |
| 20 | You 'd better send the mafia round Geoff . |
| 21 | We 'd better bring the contraption with us . |
| 22 | ‘ You 'd better speak the truth , Mr. Carter , ’ said Burden , ‘ and never mind whether it 's ill or not . |
| 23 | ‘ This time , ’ said Owen , ‘ you had better speak the truth . ’ |
| 24 | Suppose I 'd better do the washing up . |
| 25 | As Mrs Burrows took him from the hall she said to Eva " You 'd better finish the service " . |
| 26 | And — and — you 'd better lock the bedroom door tonight ! ’ |
| 27 | The pitched roof of the main block was re-tiled and large areas of the painted external weatherboarding ( including the whole of the rear gable ) were taken down and replaced with new material backed with a lining of bituminous felt to better exclude the wind . |
| 28 | He said you 'd better keep the car there in case his wo n't be ready or something . |
| 29 | In fact , I think from now on you 'd better keep the jeep for yourself . |
| 30 | Is it sometimes better to avoid the word ‘ deaf ’ ? |