Example sentences of "you [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
2 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
3 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
4 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
5 | 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 ’ . |
6 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
7 | You can decide later whether to let it out or try and lose some weight . |