Example sentences of "[verb] well [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 2 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 3 | He said , ‘ In the event of trickery , you will know better than to hope for your life . |
| 4 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 5 | But she overestimates herself , and she does not know better than to blame herself . |
| 6 | She was n't one of these poor deprived kids who slipped in through an open window or an inadequately locked door and then did not know better than to steal a television or a video . |
| 7 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 8 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 9 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You ought to know better than to ask that . |
| 11 | ‘ At least I 'm old enough to know better than to buy a crappy kitsch china schweinhund like this , ’ he retorted . |
| 12 | One of his shakier concerns was an air-taxi service with which he scared the wits out of travellers too innocent to know better than to fly with him . |
| 13 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 14 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 15 | In Britain you could not do better than to pick out from the varied products of the author John Wainwright , an ex-policeman , those of his books that are in the police procedural mode . |
| 16 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 17 | " If that 's the trouble , you could n't do better than to entrust her to the skilled understanding of the Sisters . " |
| 18 | If you must , then you ca n't do better than to buy a plastic ‘ Snake ’ ; but we doubt if you 'll have the same degree of reverence for it as for our other suggestions in nylon . |
| 19 | The professional person is challenged to serve well and to make a name for himself or herself . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing I 'd like better than to stay here and make love to you all day , but I think after breakfast we should get back to the palazzo . ’ |
| 21 | He was mortally disappointed when it was officially declared an accident and there 's nothing he 'd like better than to find some excuse to start ferreting round and upsetting everyone with his ‘ interrogations ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 23 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 24 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 25 | ‘ You know better than to ask questions like that . |
| 26 | Student astrologers , along with some scientists , often try to defend astrology as a logical workable system , but the old hands know better than to try . |
| 27 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 28 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 29 | They know better than to believe anything they hear , unless I 'm the person who tells them . ’ |
| 30 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |