Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 2 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 3 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 4 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 5 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 6 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 7 | But you 'd die rather than face it again . ’ |
| 8 | A glance at the list of some of the most popular privatisations shows that , in most cases , you 'd have more than doubled your shares when they were issued and held on to them . |
| 9 | You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists ' book . |
| 10 | If you would rather not grow your own , or you do not have the time to look after them , you could do worse than invest in artificial plants , which are quite stunningly realistic nowadays . |
| 11 | For a really cheap and cheerful gathering of friends you could do worse than invest in a fondue set and a plastic tablecloth and let everyone sit around dipping their bread into the cheese fondue , while holding a glass of nice wine in the other hand . |
| 12 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 13 | You could do worse than to sign up with Armed Response , which looks after thousands of homes in middle-class Johannesburg North , a rich hunting-ground that Gary Whittaker , a director of Armed Response , calls ‘ the captured area ’ . |
| 14 | Normally you would paraphrase rather than quote , because this is a way of rewriting the relevant material in a way which assimilates it into your essay ( rather than , as with a quotation , leaving it sticking out because of its different style ) . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think you can do better than follow the great masters , even if you ca n't hope to emulate them . |
| 17 | You can decide later whether to let it out or try and lose some weight . |