Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 2 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 3 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |
| 4 | He never gave an explanation and they knew better than to ask , but they guessed it would be a problem connected with his increasing consumption of drink . |
| 5 | More than five years of rebellions and civil war had honed his instincts to a fine edge , and he knew better than to ignore them . |
| 6 | Graham was only a little impatient , and he knew better than to try to hurry Slater up . |
| 7 | The marathon four mile trip brought out the best in Keep Talking and he rallied well when challenged by the useful Irish raider High Peak to win by four lengths . |
| 8 | And it does so while providing a perfect fit . |
| 9 | The deployment of a relatively big budget and the use of a really big screen ( Cinerama in major cities , Super Panavision 70 where projection facilities were available ) , together with a show of ‘ serious ’ ideas comparable to printed sci-fi , raised the status of the whole genre , and it has never since sunk back to the level of , say , stalk-and-slash movies in critical regard . |