Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals may survive better when they join forces with others ( 1985 : 3 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh Mister Doyle … you should know better than that . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 5 | ‘ You should know better than to ask such a question after all I 've tried to teach you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Henry should know better than to keep you cooped up with his books . |
| 7 | Why books should know better than them was puzzling to Bradstonians , but they were anxious to please their visitors so did their best to comply . |
| 8 | You should know better than to walk out into strange streets alone . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You should know better than that , ’ he said and slapped me . |
| 10 | You 're not a kid , you should know better than to sniff round other men 's wives . ’ |
| 11 | What we are seeing nightly on our TV screens is as vile and disgusting a process of racial extermination as anything practised by the Nazis , yet once again the West , including a Britain that should know better than most , is responding in terms which echo chillingly down the years from Hitler , appeasement , Chamberlain and Munich . |
| 12 | Typical of immigrants , her parents were anxious that she should do better than they and persuaded her to take up teaching as a profession . |
| 13 | This was McConnochie 's third success in his career and he gave a hint that there may be more to come in the Hennessy at Newbury on Saturday , saying : ‘ Gala 's Image should run well as long as the ground is not sticky . ’ |
| 14 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 15 | She should perform well while running and reaching , but be docile enough for his family , including young children . |
| 16 | The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before . |
| 17 | The boom days of the 1980s will never return and though profits should recover well when the upturn finally comes that is largely in the price . |
| 18 | For it was proper that in matters of sacrifice the ruler should fare better than the commoner and the nation than the ruler , since the whole should always be superior to the part … |
| 19 | It will certainly be a challenging year for , but with our strengths in quality and efficiency , we should fare better than our competitors and be in a strong position when better times return . |
| 20 | As you age , though , analytical thought plays its part and this is personified as Self 1 : the voice that reminds you when you play tennis that you must relax , must follow through , must win the point , must play well because your father is watching , and invariably provokes nervous tension and interrupts the instinctive natural flow . |
| 21 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 22 | Sky may do better than most people think , but it will not turn into another Fox , breaking even in its second year . |
| 23 | Perhaps the fallen girls might behave better if they were not constantly reminded how different they were . |
| 24 | You 'll know better than I do what that means . ’ |
| 25 | Mother was a grand player , of course … much better than I ever was … but she thought I might do better if someone else taught me , and she was such a busy person with all those old people to care for and Daddy ailing like he was . |
| 26 | He is also much more positive than many earlier organization theorists , who emphasized the complexities of individual behaviour in organizations but did little to help top managers except to say their task was very difficult and that they might do better if they understood that . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll do better than that . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope you 'll do better when I 'm in trouble . ’ |
| 29 | Eubank said : ‘ Michael is never far from my thoughts — but he 'll understand better than anyone that on the day I must close out everything except the fight . |
| 30 | I thought this idea might work well if transposed to pressed flowers . |