Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] well [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I knew of no better , and Alan should 've known better because he 'd done a lot more removals than I had and he said Oh you 're alright Neal , do n't worry . |
| 2 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 3 | Weasel Eyes looked as if he had n't moved but the other two hypocrites must have dined well for they were slouched , half-asleep , in their high-backed chairs . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He found that in half the cases it would have done better than the buy-out . |
| 6 | Nobody , he said , could have done better than the Chancellor . |
| 7 | Surely Sherlock Holmes could have done better than this ? |
| 8 | She felt she could have done better than she did with her next remark . |
| 9 | Cos he thinks he should have done better than that and he 's right he should of done better . |
| 10 | Oh gosh , you would n't have done better than that , that 's for sure . |
| 11 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 12 | I think I could have done better if I had a different attitude , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I would have done better if I 'd have had more time . |
| 14 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 15 | Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period . |
| 16 | Taff approached them with the remark , ‘ You will have to do better than that , Boyos . |
| 17 | You 'll have to do better than that , son . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , love . |
| 19 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that , ’ he said huskily . |
| 22 | You 'll have to do better than that . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll have to do better than that ! ’ |
| 24 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 25 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 26 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 27 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 28 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 29 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 30 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |