Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 8 | You can decide later whether to let it out or try and lose some weight . |